Katie Anastas
Education ReporterKatie Anastas covers education for KPBS News, from preschools and TK to universities and community colleges. Katie has covered school closures, child care shortages, Alaska Native education and statewide school funding issues for Alaska Public Media. In New York City, she reported on a controversial admissions process at the city's elite public high schools.
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Nearly all students in the Mountain Empire Unified School District take the school bus. To get food to those students, Feeding San Diego and school administrators had to adapt. -
Unions representing UC San Diego Health workers called a one-day strike amid ongoing contract negotiations with the university. -
The United Ways of California study recommends policymakers expand affordable child care, public benefits and tax credits for families with young children. -
Some of the team members are on the autism spectrum. One parent says his son is thriving in the sport. -
One of the five board members has opposed the planned layoffs of librarians and other staff. On Thursday, he asked the board to reconsider. -
The city says libraries see the least amount of traffic on Sundays. Advocates say closures would reduce community members' access to library services.
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A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. -
Federal grant funding that helps employ 30 mental health professionals across the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District will be terminated. -
A government lawyer said the federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after many filed court challenges around the U.S. Judges around the country had already issued temporary orders restoring the students’ records in a federal database of international students maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
- In Escondido, a school board member changes her name but not her politics
- SCUBA divers volunteer at San Diego's Birch Aquarium
- San Diego Unified is getting rid of some K-8 middle schools
- San Diego City Council to once again consider Balboa Park parking fees
- Elected officials announce proposed ordinance aimed at fed enforcement actions