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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With Labor Day Weekend behind us, all the county’s students are back in class and its teachers are back to work. -
An SDSU program is designed to bring more kids who grow up near the campus onto it as students. -
Hundreds are expected to attend an education summit in Chula Vista tonight.
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More than half of San Diego city schools met state performance targets during the last school year. However, the growth wasn't enough to meet separate federal goals. -
California's superintendent of public instruction, Tom Torlakson, is seeking a waiver from federal No Child Left Behind regulations.
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San Diego County students passed the math and English high school exit exams on their first try at a higher rate than California students as a whole.
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