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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
Opinion: Newsom recall about one thing: his handling of the pandemic sandiegouniontribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sandiegouniontribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott is misleading the public by refusing to release potentially damning parts of a forensic report that reviewed the 101 Ash Street building deal, even after the report was promised to be an independent and comprehensive analysis of what has now become one of the City’s worst financial debacles in its history.
The “forensic analysis” was touted as an in-depth investigation of all aspects of, and all departments and personnel involved in, the $128 million purchase and $30 million renovation of the building after the 19-story tower had to be evacuated in January 2020 over employees’ exposure to asbestos.
Candidates for 79th Assembly District weigh in on pandemic response and recovery sandiegouniontribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sandiegouniontribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.