Education

The Escondido YMCA pool had been closed and in disrepair since the COVID-19 pandemic. The district spent $1.2 million to renovate the pool for its after-school program.

Students and a right-leaning nonprofit sued UC San Diego for allegedly supporting a scholarship fund for Black students. They cited the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act as evidence to support their case.

The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders.

The documentary "Rebel with a Clause," opening Thursday at Digital Gym Cinema, follows Ellen Jovin on a 50-state road trip exploring language, grammar and community.

The new law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading,” a method of literacy instruction focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out rather than learning words by sight. The approach has led to improved reading scores in Mississippi, Louisiana and districts like Los Angeles Unified, which adopted it several years ago.

Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

State lawmakers made the loan available to Cal State after they cut state funding to the system by $144 million this year. Cal State has 22 campuses and enrolls 460,000 students.

A San Diego preschool focuses on the “little guys” who experience domestic violence and other trauma. Mi Escuelita now has a long record of helping families move forward.

A local university has been a decades-long dream for officials in San Diego County’s second-largest city.

Proponents of the 4x4 schedule say it helps students fit more classes into the school year.