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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When a Chula Vista teacher proposed weighing the kids her school district, she didn’t expect to find an obesity epidemic that outpaced the nation’s. The city’s elementary schools are planning to fight the trend. -
The tuition squeeze continues for public-university students across the state. University of California students will pay more than $12,000 in tuition for the coming year.
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Students at California State universities will pay even more in tuition this coming fall. Trustees approved the hike after also approving a controversial compensation package for San Diego State’s new president. -
About 300 more teachers in kindergarten through third grade will be heading back to city classrooms in the fall. The school district announced it will use additional state funds to trim the layoff list. -
Sacramento may know how much it plans to spend in the new fiscal year. But that doesn’t mean it’s clear yet how much money San Diego Unified can count on to operate schools. -
San Diego public school students are scoring higher on state English and math tests, but the achievement gap for African-American and Hispanic students persists. The school district is starting an effort focused specifically on improving African and African-American students’ school performance.
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