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Four San Diego County educational programs two from the Poway Unified School District have been named winners of the 18th annual Innovation in Education Awards, presented by the Classroom of the Future Foundation.
The awards honor programs that motivate K-12 students to learn and increase student achievement. Educators apply for Innovation Grants in four categories, and a panel of leaders in the business and education communities makes the selections. This year’s winners are:
Achieve Award ($5,000 grant): An innovative program that is able to measure results or achievements that drive student learning. Winner is the
CyberAegis Team of the Poway Unified School District. The program inspires students to pursue careers in cybersecurity and trains students to compete in and win county, state, and national cybersecurity competitions.
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Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller’s list of proposed stimulus money expenditures includes improvements to the Balloon Museum. (Journal file photo)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. It was a busy night for the Albuquerque City Council, with legislative body’s second May meeting taking longer than a road trip to Denver.
Somehow the council’s annual budget vote barely contributed to the seven-hour run time, as the panel quickly passed the $711 million general fund spending plan for fiscal year 2022. As council budget chairwoman Klarissa Peña noted, it was a pretty “painless” process. (Read about the budget here.)
But the meeting minutes really piled up during a separate discussion about money specifically how to spend the city’s federal COVID-19 windfall.
Coronado, 4 p.m. Tuesday;
National City, 6 p.m. Tuesday
School boards: Chula Vista Elementary School District, 6 p.m. Wednesday;
Coronado Unified School District, 4 p.m. Thursday,
San Diego Unified School District, 4:15 p.m. Thursday
IB Mayor presents community service awards
Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina recently presented five Mayoral Community Service Awards at this year’s State of the City address. The awards went to people or groups that achieved major accomplishments during the year. They are: The IB Neighborhood Center, led by Executive Director John Griffin-Atil, for their dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizing food drives, blood drives, a food pantry and more; Imperial Beach resident Dr. Ramon Hernandez of the UCSD School of Medicine, who helped the city through the public health crisis and served on the Mayor’s Task Force to provide helpful resources to the city; Ron Chapman, owner of Coronado Brewing Co., for leading by example and following
This week in Congress: How Polk s representatives voted
Thomas Voting Reports
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CRACKING DOWN ON DEBT COLLECTORS: Voting 215 for and 207 against, the House on May 13 passed a bill (HR 2547) that would prohibit abusive practices by private firms that collect debt from consumers, student-loan borrowers and others seriously in arrears. The bill would require a two-year grace period before efforts to collect medical debt from seriously ill individuals could begin. And it would allow co-signers as well as borrowers of private student loans to discharge their debt on the basis of total and permanent disability, just as seriously disabled borrowers of federal student loans and their co-signers can do. The bill also would: