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A homeless man on a bicycle is shown in front of tents in downtown San Diego in this undated photo.

Ex-San Diego mayor, police chief call for more action on homelessness

Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and ex-Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman joined with local business leaders Monday to decry the persistent homelessness "crisis" in the city and the "failure" of elected officials to address it.

Kyle Weinberg, president of the San Diego Education Association, speaks at a joint news conference, Monday, with Board trustees of the San Diego Unified School District, San Diego, Calif., June 12, 2023.

SDEA union leaders, district trustees announce historic contract vote results

Leaders of the SDEA confirmed that 98% of its members voted “yes” to the deal that includes the largest pay raise ever.

In structured literacy, students spend a lot of time learning how to break words down into bits of sound called phonemes.

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

Georgia is changing the way students are taught to read. This year a new law requires schools to adopt what's known as Science of Reading and Structured Literacy.

The San Diego County Administration Building is shown on Jan. 12, 2021.

Public hearings set this week on San Diego County budget

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors will have the first of two public hearings Monday on the county's recommended $8.11 billion budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year.

Silvio Berlusconi meets journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome in 2018.

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former prime minister, has died at the age of 86

The media mogul turned prime minister left a mark on popular culture, while his coarseness and constant legal woes trashed political norms and tainted Italy's image in the world.

An illustration created on June 6, 2022, showing invoices paid by school districts using COVID-19 aids.

Spending spree: Oversight scarce as billions in COVID aid poured into California schools

A CalMatters investigation found that schools had wildly different approaches to stimulus spending — from laptops to shade structures to an ice cream truck. No centralized database exists to show the public exactly where the money went.

Gabríel Ólafs drew inspiration from Viking tunes for his album <em>Lullabies for Piano and Cello</em>, featuring cellist Steiney Sigurðardóttir.

Viking heritage inspires soothing lullabies from Icelandic pianist Gabríel Ólafs

Vikings were ruthless warriors, but also preserved art. This has inspired a new album of Lullabies for Piano and Cello from composer Gabríel Ólafs.

The process produces a protein-shake like texture that can be dried and used similarly to seitan, a popular protein substitute for vegans.

The special ingredient for Mars travel meal prep? Astronaut breath

Chemical physicist Stafford Sheehan invented a process that can turn carbon dioxide into yeast. It's now a finalist in the NASA-sponsored Deep Space Food Challenge.

Dopamine is part of an ancient neural pathway that ensures human survival. It is also part of the reason it is so hard to stop playing a video game or pass up a cupcake.

'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweets

Dopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior.

Thousands of communities on Reddit are "going dark" in response to changes the company announced that would charge third-party developers for access to its site data.

Thousands of Reddit communities 'go dark' in protest of new developer fees

More than 6,000 so-called subreddits are participating in a 48-hour boycott aimed at pressuring the company to reverse its new fees for accessing the company's internal data.

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