Shae Sharp Collins News Today

Voting has already begun in California's Primary election -- it ends Tuesday, March 5. Here are the OB Rag Primary recommendations. You won't find a lot of material or text to read here but there are links for a number of the lesser-known candidates to their interviews or statements with the U-T. City of San…

LaShae Sharp-Collins, a community engagement specialist with the county office of education, is running for the open seat representing the 79th Assembly District, which stretches from southeastern San Diego into Lemon Grove, La Mesa and El Cajon.

In the 2021-22 school year, 3 percent of Lincoln High School’s eleventh graders met state math standards. The next year, 85 percent of them graduated.  

Community groups call for San Diego Unified superintendent search to be more transparent than the last one San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten is President Joe Biden’s choice to be U.S. deputy education secretary. The district faces the task of hiring a new superintendent. (File) In 2013, the San Diego Unified School District board chose Cindy Marten as the new superintendent behind closed doors, hours after then-Superintendent Bill Kowba told the board that...

In 2013 the San Diego Unified School Board chose Cindy Marten as the new superintendent behind closed doors, hours after then-superintendent Bill Kowba told the board he would retire and before the general public knew the board needed a new superintendent. Community members criticized the move as a closed-door appointment that violated open meeting laws and denied them the chance to give input. Almost eight years later, the superintendent position is up for grabs once more as Marten is expected...