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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The blaze erupted about 3:30 p.m. Monday on the westbound side of the freeway, near McCain Valley Road in Jacumba, according to Cal Fire. -
A group of Americans, including San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and representatives from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Wednesday joined farewell ceremonies in China for two giant pandas coming to San Diego this summer. -
Search-and-rescue teams looking for a hiker who got lost on Black Mountain over the weekend found a body believed to be that of the missing woman Monday.
- 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