Kyla Calvert
Education ReporterKyla Calvert is the education reporter forKPBS, producing multimedia content for radio, television and the Web. Kyla began producing web content while working in marketing in San Francisco. She decided to change careers and received a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in digital media from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2009. While in school she freelanced for City Hall and The Capitol newspapers covering New York City and state politics and policy. After completing her degree, she worked as a fellow for Hearst Newspapers on “Dead By Mistake” a nationwide investigative project about medical error. The project received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Kyla moved to San Diego from Beaufort County, South Carolina where she covered county government for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette.
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SDSU will develop a renewable energy research and training facility in Imperial Valley with a new federal grant.
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Encinitas school kids could start getting lessons on a working farm this year; a proposal to turn unused land into an outdoor education center is moving forward.
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University of California officials are considering a four-year budget plan that could rely on raising student tuition to as much as $22,000 a year by 2016. -
San Diego city schools had to make deep cuts including laying off hundreds of teachers to make ends meet for the school year that has just started. The district is already considering closing about 10 schools to reduce costs next year.
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With schools closed after the power outage, some families hit the beach.
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About 130,000 San Diego public school students went back to class today.
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