San Pasqual Academy / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
There’s a new phase in the movement to keep San Pasqual Academy, a boarding school for foster youth in Escondido, open: A group of nine residents, alumni and staff is suing the state and the county for moving to shut down the facility.
The group is seeking to secure the facility’s future. It’s asking the court to order the California Department of Social Services to create a unique licensing and funding category to allow it to stay open past June 2022 and continue to serve foster youth across the county. Kimberley Johnson, the director of the California Department of Social Services; Nick Macchione, the director of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency; and the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency are named as defendants in the suit.
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Brian Maryott Congressional campaign headquartered in same Oceanside complex as Chris Rodriguez mayoral campaign.
“The Republican party asked me to run against [Congressman] Mike Levin in 2020.” That’s what Oceanside city councilman Christopher Rodriguez said two years ago when the Latino ex-Marine who served in Iraq was viewed as a GOP up-and-comer.
“I turned them down,” says Rodriguez about his party’s request for him to represent the GOP in Congress. “I just felt I had too much to do for the city of Oceanside.”
Rodriguez could win a kind of electoral lottery this September.
Rodriguez for Congress
So Rodriguez instead ran for mayor of Oceanside. He was trounced in November by fellow councilmember Esther Sanchez who topped him with an 11 percent spread. Rodriguez retains his city council seat.