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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San Diego Community College students started their fall semester Monday and they’re already feeling the effects of cuts that will be triggered in December if state revenues don’t pick up. -
Forty-thousand San Diego County middle and high schoolers still have to show they've been vaccinated for whooping cough. -
San Diego city school teachers go back to work on August 31st. But many won’t know where to go that morning until the day before. -
San Diego Unified District administrators are hoping to keep scores rising in the coming year despite budget cuts. -
KPBS Midday EditionNearly a decade ago the state flagged thousands of schools for possible earthquake risks -- why have many gone unchecked? -
A brand new charter school will call the downtown library home. The school was chosen over three other applicants.
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