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is the chief executive officer of The Lewis Prize for Music, and lives in Coronado.
Last fall, Luna, Bruno, Cesar and Kate enrolled in college immediately out of high school. As Latinx youth who speak English as a second language, college was never a certainty for them. Their start was even more impressive in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when enrollment from low income and majority non-White high school students declined significantly more than enrollment at high-income or low-minority-enrollment schools.
Along with having engaged families, they shared the key experience of learning music. After handing them their first instruments 10 years ago, I have witnessed music’s role in helping them succeed.
Goetz is chair of the board of directors of Voices for Children, which operates the CASA program in San Diego and Riverside Counties, an attorney and a legal analyst. She lives in Point Loma.
The San Diego Unified School District will welcome children back into its classrooms today. When it does, expect the number of kids entering foster care to jump dramatically.
According to San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, the county saw a “drastic decrease” in calls to its child abuse hotline while schools were closed. This was not because the abuse or neglect stopped. It’s because teachers, counselors and other legally mandated reporters no longer had eyes and ears on the children.
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Starting Monday, the San Diego Unified School District will reopen its campuses to its 97,000 students for the first time in 13 months, offering parents a choice of having their children receive hybrid instruction that is part in-person and part online or staying at home for distance learning. Given how many schools have reopened many fully around the nation and the world despite the pandemic, with relatively few problems, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board believes this is long overdue locally. While the nation is now focused on hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths and tens of millions of cases tied to the novel coronavirus, the emotional, physical and academic toll of learning from home for more
San Diego Unified, SD Foundation to grant $5 million for summer school
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Nonprofits with ideas to reimagine and enhance the 2021 summer school experience with free afternoon enrichment programs can begin applying for $5 million in grants from The San Diego Foundation and San Diego Unified School District beginning Friday.
Overall, $5 million in funding in the Level Up SD program will be granted to nonprofits offering afternoon summer enrichment programming responsive to the needs of San Diego Unified students most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The opportunities are intended to accelerate student learning and support their wellbeing, knowledge and skills through the summer.