New report says CA schools are more economically-segregated than 40 other states
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Good Morning, I’m Lawrence K. Jackson, it’s TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD>>>> [ A NEW REPORT SAYS CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS ARE MORE DIVIDED BETWEEN RICH AND POOR THAN FORTY OTHER U-S STATES ]More on that next. But first... let’s do the headlines….########
THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WILL SOON VOTE ON THE COUNTY’S 9.16 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET
THEIR MEETING TAKES PLACE ON THURSDAY AT 9 A-M AT THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION CENTER…
IF ADDITIONAL TIME IS NEEDED, THE COUNTY SAYS THINGS MAY CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY
THE COUNTY SAYS THE BUDGET SUPPORTS HEALTH AND SAFETY NET PROGRAMS IMPACTED BY FEDERAL POLICY CHANGES AND EXPANDS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE
THE COUNTY SAYS YOU CAN WATCH THE MEETING ONLINE AT SAN DIEGO COUNTY DOT GOV
THE REVISED BUDGET IS SET TO GO INTO EFFECT ON JULY FIRST
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SUMMER OFFICIALLY STARTED ON SUNDAY...
AND NOW, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS AN EARLY-SUMMER WARMING TREND IS ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE COUNTY
DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY TO LAND ANYWHERE FROM FIVE TO TEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE
N-W-S SAYS THERE IS A MODERATE TO MAJOR LEVEL OF HEAT-RISK IN OUR DESERTS
AND MINOR TO MODERATE LEVELS OF HEAT RISK ARE EXPECTED IN OUR INLAND VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY ARE ANTICIPATED AS THE WARMEST DAYS AND THEN A COOLING TREND SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE IN ON FRIDAY
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THE SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY SAYS THAT PET DEPOSITS AND NO-PET POLICIES ARE NOW ONE OF THE TOP-LISTED REASONS BEING GIVEN FOR SURRENDERING A PET
ABC-TEN SAYS THAT IN LIEU OF THIS, THE SAN DIEGO CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING A MEASURE INITIALLY PROPOSED BACK IN OCTOBER, THAT WOULD DO AWAY WITH MONTHLY PET-RELATED FEES ALTOGETHER
THE PRESIDENT OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY TOLD ABC-1O THAT PEOPLE ARE HAVING TO GIVE UP THEIR ANIMAL FAMILY MEMBERS BECAUSE QUOTE EITHER HOUSING IS TOO EXPENSIVE OR TOO RESTRICTIVE
S-D-H-S'S PRESIDENT ALSO ADDED THAT AN INITIAL SECURITY DEPOSIT MAKES SENSE BUT QUOTE HAVING A MONTHLY RECURRING FEE IS NOT NECESSARY
THE PROPOSAL NOW HEADS TO THE FULL SAN DIEGO CITY COUNCIL FOR A VOTE ON JUNE 30TH
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A NEW REPORT RANKS CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS THE 10TH MOST ECONOMICALLY SEGREGATED IN THE COUNTRY.
REPORTER KATIE HYSON HAS MORE ON WHY THAT MATTERS, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE.
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Schools in California are more divided between rich and poor than in 40 other states in the country.
That divide is worse than it was three decades ago, nationally.
SOT :04 Concentrated poverty in schools is a unique educational harm.
The Brown’s Promise project co-authored the study. Stephen Owens is their policy director and a former teacher.
SOT :27 If you have one child in your 25 that you're teaching that's having a difficult time or who has a lot of needs that are being unmet at home, that can be treated as like, ‘OK, how can we support this human? If 20 of your 25 kids are dysregulated, are having these needs unmet . . . *fade under*
He says economic segregation leads to teacher turnover and burnout. And worse outcomes for students.
SOT :04 It's hard to learn if so many of your classmates are dealing with those unmet needs.
He says one of the most straightforward solutions is to redraw district lines, or share across them.
SOT :10 They were not handed down from Mount Sinai . . . Like, these were lines that were drawn at one point and can be redrawn or can have their impact lessened in children's lives.
Katie Hyson, KPBS News
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FROM STATEWIDE EDUCATION NEWS, TO NEWS ON THE COUNTY’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT…
THE SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL VOTE ON A RESOLUTION ON TECHNOLOGY USE IN CLASSROOMS TONIGHT [Tuesday.] EDUCATION REPORTER KATIE ANASTAS GIVES US A PREVIEW.
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If approved, the resolution would make a few changes for the start of the school year.
First, students would not be allowed to use YouTube or other video-streaming platforms on their school-issued devices.
Second, gaming platforms would be prohibited.
And third, transitional kindergarten classrooms would no longer have computer carts. Right now, TK students are assigned devices for use in class and return them to a cart rather than taking them home.
By the end of the school year, the district would require online applications used in class to be ad-free. It’d also provide opt-out procedures for families who don’t want students to take their devices home over the summer.
The board will vote on the resolution at its meeting tonight at 5. Katie Anastas, KPBS News.
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IN OTHER EDUCATION RELATED NEWS, MEXICO’S PRESIDENT WAS IN TIJUANA OVER THE WEEKEND TO TELL PEOPLE THAT EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE.
VIDEO JOURNALIST MATTHEW BOWLER WAS THERE AND BRINGS US THIS REPORT.
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“Educación es un derecho no un privilegio!”
That was the refrain from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo in Tijuana over the weekend.
She made two stops in the city .
The first at the opening of a new high school.
And her second stop was at Parque Morelos in Tijuana proper.
The president was there to announce a new Universal Basic Education Scholarship for Mexican primary school students.
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In August more than 290-thousand Baja California primary school students will receive 2,500 pesos each. That's around $150 dollars.
Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo | President of Mexico
para que en Agosto reciban el apoyo para útiles uniformes escolares. Esta beca– es para todas y todos los niños de México
“they will receive the allowance for school supplies and uniforms in August. This scholarship is for all the children of Mexico.”
In Tijuana Matthew Bowler KPBS News.
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SAN DIEGO’S ROAD REPAIR BUDGET IS VASTLY UNDERFUNDED.
LAST WEEK PUBLIC MATTERS REPORTER JAKE GOTTA LOOKED INTO WHY THE CITY DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO FIX ALL THE ROADS. HE JOINED ROUNDTABLE HOST ANDREW BRACKEN TO SHARE AN UPDATE ON WHAT THE CITY IS DOING WITH THE BUDGET THEY DO HAVE.
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So tell us what’s the situation with the city’s road repair budget right now?
Well it’s pretty simple; the city doesn’t have enough money to maintain the huge network of roads we have in the short term, and that means it’ll just be more expensive down the road, if you’ll pardon the pun.
And why is that? Where’s the funding gap coming from?
These road repair funds aren’t just random, the money comes from specific things like gas taxes, state funds, and the local trans net ordinance, that’s a sales tax. But that level of funding from all of those sources just hasn’t kept up with the need to cover our network of roads.
But why is this happening now? It seems like there was money for these repairs in the past, right?
So a couple things are happening here; first, the roads are just getting older. The longer you defer maintenance on the roads the more it costs to fix them when you do get around to it. And that budget just adds up.
But the other part is we’re just reaching a breaking point for the city on the level of traffic on the roads, and the sprawling nature of a lot of the city’s low density neighborhoods means there’s really not enough tax money coming in per mile of road.
Here’s what bill fulton, the former city planning director, told me.
Bill fulton, ucsd professor, former San Diego city planning director: “when you have a sprawling city, the math doesn't add up between the amount of tax revenue coming in and the amount of money that has to go out the door for services.”
So then what is the city’s approach to this problem right now?
The city just celebrated a record number of road repairs done by their in-house mill and pave team; so one thing the city found is that they can save money and do more miles of road for less with an in-house team. And that team is focused on the worst roads in the city that need a complete re-do.
A couple years ago, kpbs and our partner inewssource looked into the city’s pavement management plan, and they found it was really inequitable in where roads were being prioritized for maintenance.
One aspect of the plan was to balance super expensive repairs on really terrible quality roads with some cheaper fixes on the roads that aren’t as bad, to be cost effective. But what our partners found was, a lot of the worst roads in the city are in lower income neighborhoods, places that have been underfunded and underserved for decades. So now the city’s plan takes that into account, and they had a press conference in district 4 to celebrate a record 30 miles of repaired lanes completed by this in house team this year
Here’s what mayor todd gloria said at the press conference today.
Todd gloria, San Diego mayor - “this work is happening all across the city of San Diego, but a special effort has been made in our historically underserved communities like council district four, to make sure that the overdue investments are finally coming to these neighborhoods.”
The city said these 30 lane miles were a record. But put that in context for us. Is that a large share of the city’s roadways?
Overall, no, it’s not. So, the city has more than 6,600 miles of roadway lanes. It’s the second largest city road network in the state – behind la. But these are 30 miles of some of the worst roads in the city getting completely repaired, so that’s a big deal.
And those aren’t the only miles repaired, there’s still other maintenance like slurry seals and some less expensive repairs being done across the city. They just wanted to highlight these because of how serious the repair was and how it’s sort of taking this equity approach.
Got it, so what can be done long term here ultimately?
Long term, the city is going to need either more revenue or fewer cars on the roads – or both. The path the city is on for the roads, for transit, and for a lot of infrastructure honestly is sort of unsustainable. Which means it looks like there could be a ballot measure, or two, in 2028 that would address some of these serious funding problems.
Jake thanks for being here.
My pleasure!
TAG: THAT WAS PUBLIC MATTERS REPORTER JAKE GOTTA SPEAKING WITH ROUNDTABLE HOST ANDREW BRACKEN.
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COULD SAN DIEGO PLAY HOST TO ANOTHER NASCAR RACE NEXT YEAR? MILITARY REPORTER ANDREW DYER SAYS NASCAR OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING INTO IT AFTER CALLING THE RACES THIS PAST WEEKEND A BIG SUCCESS.
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Instead of roaring jets this weekend at Naval Air Station North Island it was all roaring racecars.
NASCAR chief operating officer Ben Kennedy is already talking about coming back.
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Ben Kennedy, NASCAR chief operating officer
what's the future look like? Are we coming back or are we not coming back? What I can tell you is that we feel like this is a tremendously successful event.
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We would love to return. We're also cognizant of the fact that this is active military base, and we want to be mindful of that…”
The event had traffic challenges getting into and out of Coronado.
There were race issues, too. All weekend drivers struggled with traction as the concrete tarmac that served as part of the track chewed through their tires.
Kennedy says NASCAR wants to return in 20-27 and is talking things over with the Navy.
Andrew Dyer, KPBS News.
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That’s it for the podcast today. This podcast is edited by Brooke Ruth AND IS hosted and produced by me, Lawrence K. Jackson. As always you can find more San Diego news online at KPBS dot org. Thanks for listening and have a great day/weekend.
