
Megan Burks
Education ReporterMegan Burks is the education reporter at KPBS. She reports on teaching and learning from infancy into adulthood, the achievement gap, and school governance. Before tackling the education beat, Megan helped launch Speak City Heights, a media collaborative covering community health in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego. As Speak City Heights reporter for KPBS and Voice of San Diego, Megan's work pushed reform in the San Diego Police Department and taxi industry. She was awarded the San Diego County Taxpayers Association's 2015 Media Watchdog Award for her look at dangerous housing conditions for low-income tenants. Megan has also been recognized by the San Diego Human Relations Commission and Society of Professional Journalists San Diego Pro Chapter for bringing underrepresented voices to radio and television. Megan was born and raised in El Cajon, and graduated from San Diego State University, where she studied journalism and sociology. Her thesis looked at the media’s effects on attitudes toward immigrants. She interned with San Diego CityBeat and KPBS’ Envision San Diego.
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Are you guilty of avoiding Girl Scouts at the grocery store? Your avoidance is teaching them a lesson more and more educators say is important — how to innovate.
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KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego law enforcement have investigated at least 45 school shooting threats since 2014. They believe they've stopped two planned attacks.
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The students want training for police and a shift in campus culture after a La Mesa officer slammed their classmate to the ground last month.
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The district says it’s closing the centers — Kennedy CDC in Lincoln Park, Brooklyn CDC in Golden Hill, Bayview CDC in Pacific Beach and Montezuma CDC in the College Area — due to poor enrollment and because consolidating elsewhere will allow the district open more preschool slots.
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Students are expected to walk out of school on March 14 for 17 minutes — one for each person killed in a school shooting in Florida this month.
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Nearly 60 percent of National City teachers surveyed said they don’t have the materials they need to implement Common Core standards.
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