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Morning Report: San Diego Unified Restricts Tech in Classroom
San Diego Unified School District leaders this week joined a growing nationwide backlash against educational technology in the classroom. District trustees voted unanimously to place new limits on students’ screen use and initiated a longer-term process to strengthen district technology policies. As our Jakob McWhinney reports, parents and researchers are growing increasingly alarmed by what…
Morning Report: Charter Chain Drops $500K on ChatGPT-Powered Robots
This post has been updated. Picture this: you walk into your child’s school and see a robot. It’s more than 6 feet tall and has grey skin. Its blue eyes flick from side to side; its exposed motors whirr. This isn’t just the stuff of science fiction. Officials at the local charter network Altus Schools…
Morning Report: County Official Worked Day of Alleged Hit and Run
A county official accused of a fatal hit-and-run in Southcrest was on the clock the day of the crash. County records show Assmaa Elayyat, deputy director of Self Sufficiency Services at the county, was working on May 22, the day she allegedly struck and killed 27-year-old Katie Osorio at a Southcrest bus stop and then…
Morning Report: San Diego’s Homeless Day Center Faces Uncertain Future
One lesser-discussed victim of the budget cuts is the Neil Good Day Center, a resource hub that will shutter later this year after serving homeless San Diegans for 35 years. But that’s not the end of the story: Social Media Producer Bella Ross reports that Father Joe’s Villages, the center’s operator, has vowed to retrofit…
Morning Report: South County Democrats Are At War – With Each Other
The South County wing of the local Democratic Party is in disarray. Party leaders are hoping for more unity heading into the general election in November. First, they’ll have to quell an uprising. The region’s South Area Vice Chair just resigned after cameras caught him shouting at one party activist who opposed the leader’s pick…
Morning Report: The Special Ed Explosion
This post has been updated. Over the past decade, schools across the country have grappled with a striking decrease in enrollment. Tens of thousands of students have left San Diego County schools in the last decade. Why, then, have the numbers of kids with disabilities increased by nearly 30 percent in the same time period?…
Morning Report: What the County Knew About Ex-Harm Reduction COO
When we first broke the story on a criminal misappropriation case involving a former executive of a county contractor, we wanted to know: Did county officials know about her past embezzlement conviction when they awarded a second contract to the nonprofit in 2024? Turns out they did. Our Lisa Halverstadt reveals that a whistleblower contacted…
Morning Report: The Messy Departure of Chula Vista’s Esteemed Police Chief
In Chula Vista, everyone seems to have a theory about the unexplained departure of the city’s veteran police chief. No one seems to know what really happened. Our South County reporter, Jim Hinch, dug into the story and discovered a tale more complicated and stranger than anyone knew. Roxana Kennedy served more than three decades…
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