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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Gov. Jerry Brown's new budget proposal for the coming fiscal year released Monday contains some good news for San Diego public schools. Increased education funding could ease the $115 million in cuts the district has been planning for.
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Teachers and Taxpayer Group Face Off
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Children made up about 23 percent of San Diego County’s population last year new Census data show, down from more than a quarter 10 years ago. -
California State University trustees have selected, as the next president of San Diego State University, Elliot Hirshman, provost and senior vice president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hirshman beat out two other finalists for the job to replace Stephen Weber. -
More than 700 San Diego public school teachers will get final layoff notices next week. The notices go out about a month before the district’s final budget must be completed. -
More than 17,000 San Diego public school students ride district school buses every day. Board members will consider plans that could end busing for more than half of those students.
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