“We are actively working to raise awareness about the importance of extending the career and college prep curriculum known as the “A-G” curriculum to all students, regardless of their background, neighborhood or income level.
As a result of our efforts this past year, the two largest school districts in San Diego County adopted a policy making “A-G” the standard curriculum for all students beginning with the incoming class of 9th graders.”
KPBS: Admission Offers Up At UC San Diego
UC San Diego announced Wednesday that it has offered admission to more than 30,000 freshmen for the fall semester, almost 3,800 more than last year, and around 9,800 transfer students, up by more than 1,650. The students were selected from a record 84,209 freshman and 18,487 transfer applications. The admitted freshman class includes 58 percent more Mexican-Americans and 46 percent more African-Americans, according to the university. “We are pleased to welcome this exceptional new class of students,” said UCSD Chancellor Pradeep...
read moreAlliance San Diego Applauds SDUSD for Preparing Students for 21st Century
Alliance San Diego celebrates the Class of 2016 in San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) for being on track to graduate at a record-breaking 92 percent. This class of 2016 will also be the first graduating class that will have completed the implementation of the A-G graduation requirements, which is a career and college prep curriculum designed to ensure students are prepared for the 21st century. Beginning with the Class of 2016, SDUSD changed its graduation policy to provide A-G courses to all students regardless of the school they...
read moreRecord Number of San Diego Students Set to Graduate
Alliance San Diego applauds SDUSD for preparing students for 21st century
read moreKPBS: San Diego Unified High School Graduation Rates Higher Than Expected
San Diego Unified says it’s on track to set a record for the highest high school graduation rate among the state’s five largest districts. The announcement comes just two months after the Public Policy Institute of California warned that the district was expected to graduate about 20 percent fewer students under more stringent graduation requirements. Cheryl Hibbeln, who oversees secondary schools for San Diego Unified, told the school board on Tuesday that 92 percent of high school seniors in the district are expected to graduate...
read moreKPBS: What Role Does Race Play In Academic Achievement In California?
Research on the academic achievement gap is often based on comparing student test scores. But Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicana studies and sociology at Pomona College, went straight to the source. Ochoa, author of “Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap,”interviewed hundreds of high school students, counselors and teachers in Southern California to examine how race plays a role in academic success. At one high school that’s predominantly Latino and Asian-American, Ochoa found that students were...
read moreVoice of San Diego: The District’s Ambitious New Plan to Serve English-Learners
By Mario Koran I opened a story last year by zooming in on Ángel Solorzano, a student at Kearny High. Solorzano arrived at Kearny speaking very little English. When he met his new principal, Ana Diaz-Booz, the two communicated in sign language. He was one of 32,000 English-learners in San Diego Unified schools who aren’t proficient in English. Diaz-Booz had an option. She could keep Solorzano in separate classes, where he’d build his language skills until he was ready to enter mainstream classes and take college-prep classes. Some...
read moreNPR: When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race?
“Stronger Together” is not the name of the latest social-media fitness app. It’s a grant proposed in President Obama’s new budget, reviving an idea that hasn’t gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity in public schools. If the request is approved, $120 million will go to school districts for programs intended to make their schools more diverse. As a new pair of reports from the progressive Century Foundation shows, integration policies have seen a resurgence: In 2007, 40 districts pursued integration....
read moreUnion-Tribune: Free community college plan revealed
By Gary Warth SAN DIEGO — Responding to a national goal to make community colleges free for all students, the San Diego Community College District plans to launch a pilot program that will ensure 200 incoming students this fall will not have any fees to pay, with some also receiving grants to buy books. The effort will cost $215,000 in its first year, with a plan to create an endowment that eventually will cover the cost of student fees and books, said district Chancellor Constance Carroll. The district’s Board of Trustees unanimously...
read moreUnion-Tribune: UCSD recruits future Tritons at SD High
By Gary Warth Some San Diego High School students may be reconsidering their future after a visit from UC San Diego officials Wednesday. “We’re all here because we believe in you,” UC San Diego Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez told 660 students packed into the school gym. “We’re here because we believe in your dreams.” UC San Diego representatives have visited one or two local high school campuses annually for the past four years to encourage students to seek higher education. Among other things, they inform the...
read moreSFGate: Court weighs potential overhaul of California school financing
The First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco hinted Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, that it was considering a potentially historic judicial intervention in California’s woeful school finance system — a ruling that it violates students’ constitutional right to an adequate education.
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