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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University officials plan to avoid another spike after spring break by creating incentives for students to stay on campus rather than go home during the break. -
District and union officials in San Diego County say widespread in-person learning is unlikely even if teachers get vaccinated. -
While there have been no outbreaks on campuses, district officials said individual cases among staff have resulted in up to seven coworkers having to quarantine. -
The county’s largest district eventually hopes to test all 100,000 of its students every two weeks once they return to campuses. -
In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Diego Unified's Cindy Marten and six other superintendents argue that the plan would disproportionately benefit wealthier districts with relatively low COVID-19 case counts. -
One education expert says federal and state governments should take this opportunity to remedy historical inequities in public education that predate the pandemic.
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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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