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.

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.

The university received the notification "without warning," and that the federal government has not explained the reasons behind the visa terminations.