Joe Hong
Education ReporterJoe Hong covered education stories across KPBS platforms. Prior to joining the KPBS newsroom, he covered three school districts for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs. He has written about school finance, negligence in special education, and school board misconduct. Previously, he covered equity issues and historically black colleges and universities for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine based in Fairfax, Virginia. Before a career in journalism, he was pursuing a doctorate in comparative literature at Rutgers University. He pivoted to journalism in 2016 and earned a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2017, specializing in investigative reporting. In September 2019, he completed The Data Institute, a two-week workshop for journalists of color taught by ProPublica in collaboration with the Ida B. Wells Society.
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Congressman Scott Peters is facing fellow Democrat Nancy Casady and Republican businessman Jim DeBello in today's primary. -
Students across 10 schools in the South Bay district participated in on-campus walkouts Tuesday, calling the cuts excessive and harmful to the most vulnerable students. -
The potential cuts include more than 200 teachers, counselors and librarians, as well as a complete shutdown of the district’s learning centers, which serve students who don't fit in traditional classrooms. -
The tentative agreement gives teachers a 1.5% raise and doesn't include class-size increases that the district had previously proposed. -
Special education teachers and their aides brought boxes of complaints to the district offices Tuesday that detail high caseloads and a lack of proper training. -
Sara Jacobs, who is running for Congress in the 53rd District, has sent out mailers stating she's “endorsed by California Democrats.” While Jacobs has received endorsements from some prominent Democrats, she's not endorsed by either the state or local party.
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San Diego Unified School District leaders announced a targeted date of April 12 to allow students of all grade levels to return to the classroom. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state would move to an age-based eligibility system after vaccinating those now at the front of the line, including health care, agricultural workers, emergency personnel and seniors 65 and older. -
UCSD officials identify two people on campus who were infected with COVID-19 and did not know it.
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