Katie Anastas

Founder Barbara Gates says beans are an affordable, eco-friendly protein source found in cuisine around the world.

District leaders say math teacher training, smaller class sizes and counselors at each school have helped.

The Catholic Diocese of San Diego has covered St. Katharine Drexel Academy’s deficits in past years, but said it no longer could because of its bankruptcy filing.

Nearly 1,000 teachers and other staff in the San Diego Unified School District plan to retire at the end of the year. They’re taking the district up on an offer meant to help address its budget deficit.

Education specialists say high caseloads mean they can’t give students and their families the attention they need.

Thousands of volunteers walked the streets on Thursday for this year’s point-in-time count of people who are homeless in the county. KPBS reporters take us into the field on the census day. Then, border reporter Gustavo Solis offers insight and updates on the ramped up immigration enforcement efforts happening locally and nationally. Plus, San Diego’s new poet laureate shares her vision to make poetry more accessible.

Most of the shoreline at Imperial Beach was open Monday, following three years of nearly continuous closure.

The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education has fired Superintendent Lamont Jackson.

"We have a robust gun-safety toolkit. San Diego is leading the way in utilizing that safety toolkit to proactively prevent violence."