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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More than 100 people who spent part of the winter in San Diego’s temporary homeless shelter are getting a permanent address – four times more people than made that transition last year. -
When students sit down to figure out the length of a hypotenuse, they probably aren’t thinking about catching criminals. One Chula Vista crime expert hopes to change that. -
Father Joe Carroll has been the face of homeless services in San Diego for decades. He will step down as president of Father Joe’s Villages on April 12, his 70th birthday. -
The nuclear crisis brought on by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan could inform a new study of the fault lines closest to the San Onofre nuclear power station. -
California’s community colleges will lose $400 million in state funding under approved budget cuts. The system’s students will also be paying more for less.
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Mounting pension costs could require the city of San Diego to cut funding for public safety and other services in coming years. There are two competing plans to reform the system and reign in the city’s retiree spending.
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