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	Journal of San Diego History
		A milestone for education in San Diego was the land boom of the mid-1880s.
		The city's resources, including the schools, were stretched well beyond their normal capacities, and this may well have been reflected in many of the city's youth not enrolling in school because of a lack of desks in the classrooms.
		As in the cities along the eastern seaboard, when San Diego changed from a frontier town to a young city, the male teachers in Old Town and the Government Barracks were at first augmented by and then replaced by young women eager to enter the work force.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/91spring/schools.htm (6137 words)

	San Diego city schools \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		San Diego's course should be guided by whether or not the reforms worked – and evidence from a new study published by the Public Policy Institute of California indicates that with a couple of notable exceptions, they did.
		At the middle school level, racial gaps in reading achievement also declined as a direct result of the blueprint, but by a lesser extent, about 2 percent for the Hispanic-white gap and 3 percent for the fl-white gap.
		Betts is professor of economics at the University of California San Diego and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051014/news_lz1e14betts.html (669 words)

	voiceofsandiego.org: Housing... Developers Want Schools; Schools Want Kids
		She said the only way the school has been able to maintain its numbers is due to nonresident students who are shuttled in by parents who work downtown.
		Downtown residents advocates like Smith, president and director of the San Diego Residents Group, are concerned that young families living in downtown will move out of the area when their kids are old enough to attend school.
		The closest middle school to the area is Roosevelt Middle School, on Park Boulevard, north of the San Diego Zoo.
	www.voiceofsandiego.org /articles/2006/08/03/housing/972schools.txt (1191 words)

	San Diego Grand Jury
		The San Diego Unified School District was selected for the study as the largest district in San Diego County with a diverse geographic, demographic and ethnic representation.
		The San Diego Unified School District is considered to have an overall Moderate Security rating (11% of the national study group) as defined by the U.S. Department of Education and confirmed by the School Police.
		Schools throughout the district are in the process of developing and implementing early warning systems to identify potential sources of violence or troubled students.
	www.co.san-diego.ca.us /grandjury/reports/1999_2000/school_security.html (5383 words)

	Schools in University City (Zip 92122), San Diego, California
		To the north of Otay Mesa lie the city of Chula Vista and the Otay River Valley, and to the west is Interstate 805.
		San Diego County, one of the original counties of California was established in 1850.
		San Diego is home to about 3 million people, and in terms of population size, it is the 6th largest county in the United States and the 3rd largest in California.
	www.sdhomedatabase.com /schools/university_city.html (2631 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		San Diego's educational system, which would produce the citizens, the new members of the labor force, could not defend the status quo in the face of potential revolution.
		By the end of the 1940-41 school year, the Curriculum Project was devoting 100% of its energy to the preparation of national defense materials, with major emphasis on materials for the Vocational School and for classes at nearby military posts.
		The activities and output of the project also influenced the San Diego system, and led directly to the creation of their outstanding "supermarket style" instructional aids center, in which materials drawing from a rich variety of styles and media are readily available to teachers, and through them to the students.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/72spring/schools.htm (3504 words)

	San Diego Dialogue Report September/October 2002
		In the spring of 2002 the San Diego Achievement Forum, a network of researchers and higher education leaders with a strong interest inK-12 student performance, set out to document the progress of student achievement in San Diego City Schools.
		San Diego is also among the top performers among major urban districts with similar socio-economic and demographic characteristics.
		San Diego, for example, has increased the percentage of students tested from 95.06% in 1998 to 97.33% in 2002.
	www.sandiegodialogue.org /Report/sep_oct_02/pg2.html (1577 words)

	How Earthquake Safe Are Local Schools? - 1906 EarthquakeNews Story - KNSD \| San Diego
		SAN DIEGO -- In the wake of an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people in South Asia, many of them school children, San Diegans are asking how safe their local schools are.
		The San Diego city school district is one of the few districts in the state to request the results of a statewide school earthquake survey, NBC 7/39 reported.
		Schools older than 1976 had already received seismic upgrades and meet modern safety standards, according to officials.
	www.nbcsandiego.com /1906/5082446/detail.html (198 words)

	City of San Diego: 2000 Schools Program Trash Cutters Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The city of San Diego has a comprehensive environmental education component for all grade levels of San Diego city schools.
		In order to select invitees, the list of schools was narrowed based on the time of day the school started and the date of its last ILACSD classroom presentation.
		The three goals of the event are designed to supplement the teachers' curriculum and include: teach the students about recycling and waste reduction, to have them participate in activities that raise their awareness of the impacts that routine actions have on natural habitats and resources, and to expose them to professions in the environmental field.
	www.ciwmb.ca.gov /TrashCutters/Winners/2000/SanDiegoSchl.htm (569 words)

	San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The San Diego region’s education community is at the forefront of efforts to enhance educational opportunities and increase student performance.
		Collaboration between K-12 educators and San Diego’s technology industries continues to increase as more emphasis is placed on math and science education and the need to adequately prepare the workforce for the new economy jobs that are growing so quickly in the area.
		San Diego Regional EDC works in partnership with, and receives significant funding from, the City of San Diego.
	www.sandiegobusiness.org /education2.asp (397 words)

	San Diego City Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Diego City Schools (SDCS) is the school district of San Diego, California.
		The district includes 113 elementary schools, 23 middle schools, 4 atypical schools, 10 alternative schools, 27 high schools and 25 charter schools.
		High Schools of San Diego, for private schools and public schools outside of the district.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Diego_City_Schools (112 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Enrollment has been declining since 2000, the five-member school board is politically polarized, and critics of Superintendent Alan Bersin say much of the problem lies with the central office’s refusal to cut its highest-paid administrators—those charged with ensuring that reforms introduced to the district in 2000 are being properly implemented.
		THE San Diego City Schools DISTRICT is funded from its own general fund, composed of federal, state and private grant money.
		Patterson says schools were given the power to shape how they would use their resources, and to some extent that’s true.
	www.sandiego-online.com /issues/july04/featureb0704.asp (2246 words)

	San Diego City College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Diego City College (known more informally as City College or City) is a public, two-year community college located in San Diego, California.
		City College is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
		Community college education in San Diego began in 1914 when the Board of Education of the San Diego City Schools authorized postsecondary classes for San Diego high school students.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Diego_City_College (219 words)

	Adversaries To Allies: Lessons From The San Diego City Schools Contract Negotiations
		The situation we will examine involves contract negotiations between the teachers' union and management in the San Diego City Schools District (San Diego City Schools is the second largest school district in California, and one of the 15 largest in the US.
		In the spring of 1998, labor and management of San Diego City Schools overcame both difficult recent history and their own doubts about the interest-based process to create a successful educators' contract for the 1998-2001 school years.
		San Diego Schools History In 1996, relations between the San Diego Teachers Association and San Diego City Schools District were spiraling downward.
	www.mediate.com /articles/thoughtbridge1.cfm (703 words)

	School Accountability Report Cards: Spring 2006
		Elementary schools are schools with grade ranges that fall entirely within K-6.
		Middle Level schools are schools with grade ranges that fall entirely within 6-9.
		Senior High schools are schools with grade ranges that fall entirely within 9-12.
	prod031.sandi.net /research/sarcs/index.asp (357 words)

	NTPG: Progress Report for San Diego City USD - Reference Documents (CA Dept of Education)
		San Diego City Unified School District (SDCUSD) includes 155 schools with approximately 124,000 students enrolled.
		With such a dramatic growth rate, overcrowding in the districts schools will continue to be an issue of concern.
		In 1988 the voters passed proposition Y, which granted $147 million of the taxing capacity to build 9 new schools, remodel and expand 8 existing schools, and build science laboratories at 9 senior high schools.
	www.cde.ca.gov /ls/et/rd/ntpgsandiegoc.asp (906 words)

	San Diego City Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kearny High School staff provides parents with timely information about the Title I Program, school performance profile, individual student assessment results with interpretations, the school curriculum, types of assessment, and standards students are to meet.
		School staff work with parents to discuss activities that parents can use at home to support school success.
		They are encouraged to call the school to make an appointment to review their child’s progress with teachers and/or counselors.
	khs.sandi.net /parents/par_involvment.htm (550 words)

	Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		SAN DIEGO -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded an $11 million grant to San Diego City Schools (SDCS) and New American Schools (NAS) to transform three large San Diego high schools into high-performing small learning communites.
		In San Diego City Schools, the second largest district in California, just 62 percent of high school students graduate, and only one in three leave high school prepared to do college work, according to a Manhattan Institute study.
		The district is committed to supporting schools and enhancing the classroom learning environment through modernized facilities and resources and through parent, teacher and community involvement in the educational process.
	www.gatesfoundation.org /UnitedStates/Education/TransformingHighSchools/Announcements/Announce-031125.htm (943 words)

	Innovations in Education: Creating Strong Supplemental Educational Services Programs-- Pg 14
		In San Diego, poverty is not readily apparent to casual visitors who tend to be more familiar with the area's beautiful beaches, its world-famous zoo, and other tourist attractions.
		But in school year 2002-03, 56.4 of San Diego's almost 140,000 public school students were eligible for free or reduced meals, 31 of its 185 schools had such high percentages of eligible students that under federal regulations the schools rated as 100 percent eligible, and 126 schools received Title I funds.
		When it came to developing SES's required student learning plan, San Diego was ahead of the game thanks to the Blueprint, which requires classroom teachers in program improvement schools to complete a learning contract for every student at risk of not meeting grade-level reading or math standards.
	www.ed.gov /admins/comm/suppsvcs/sesprograms/report_pg14.html (699 words)

	San Diego Metropolitan Magazine - Investing In The Future
		The mission of the institute is to identify and address major issues critical to the long-term prosperity of the San Diego region.
		Alongside the many companies that contribute to education in San Diego are nonprofit groups that do their part to help students do better in school.
		In San Diego, the group recruits and trains a corps of 1,100 volunteers to teach Junior Achievement courses to school children.
	www.sandiegometro.com /2004/sep/coverstory2.php (2277 words)

	San Diego city schools improve in API results - North County Times - San Diego / County -
		The overall 2004 score for the 171 schools in the San Diego Unified School District was 710, up from 697 the previous year.
		Statewide, 21.4 percent of public schools met the goal, with elementary schools typically outperforming middle and high schools.
		La Jolla High School, not considered a part of San Diego Unified because of its autonomous status, was the top-scoring high school, with an API of 815.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/03/16/news/sandiego/16_52_163_15_05.txt (534 words)

	"6 to 6" Schools \| San Diego's 6 to 6 Extended School Day Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The City of San Diego's "6 to 6" Extended School Day Program serves elementary and middle schools within the City of San Diego.
		The City of San Diego, in collaboration with San Diego City Schools and local community-based provider agencies, will begin the pre-enrollment application process for admission to San Diego's "6 to 6" Extended School Day Program for the 2006-2007 school year on March 29, 2006.
		Families interested in utilizing San Diego's "6 to 6" before and after school enrichment program should review the application letter and must complete a pre-enrollment application form, returning the form by mail to the designated provider agency.
	www.sandiego.gov /6to6/schools/index.shtml (447 words)

	Our Schools :: San Diego Unified School District
		School Finder: find what resident school options are available for your child.
		School Profiles - Summaries of demographic and achievement data about schools and their students.
		San Diego Unified School District • Eugene Brucker Education Center • 4100 Normal St.• San Diego • CA • 92103 • (619) 725-8000
	www.sandi.net /indices/schools.htm (188 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- San Diego City Schools improve on API, many still subpar
		SAN DIEGO – About 70 percent of San Diego City Schools failed to meet the state goal on the Academic Performance Index in 2005, but the district improved slightly from the previous year, according to results released Tuesday.
		The overall 2005 score for the 193 schools in the San Diego Unified School District was 728, up from 710 the previous year.
		La Jolla High School was the highest-ranking high school with a score of 834, while Thurgood Marshall Middle School had the best score for a middle school at 888 and Bird Rock Elementary led with a score of 948.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/education/20060321-1422-apiscores.html (455 words)

	General Electric : Solar-powered rooftops are blanketing San Diego City Schools with help from GE Commercial Finance. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Roofs that generate solar electricity are covering San Diego schools in an innovative project that Solar Integrated Technologies and GE Commercial Finance's Energy Financial Services recently announced.
		The first to benefit from the arrangement is San Diego City Schools, which estimates it will save millions in roofing and energy costs over the next 20 years.
		A total of 14 San Diego schools expect the new solar roofing systems to be operational in the next few weeks, followed by additional installations over the next two years.
	www.ge.com /stories/en/20351.html?category=Product_Business (362 words)

	School Accountability Report Cards: Spring 2006
		Public schools throughout California are required to provide information about themselves to the community in the form of an annual School Accountability Report Card (SARC).
		Elementary schools are schools with grade ranges that fall entirely within K-6.
		Alternative schools are schools that serve students with special needs or require special considerations.
	studata.sandi.net /research/sarcs/index.asp (358 words)

	San Diego People's Tribunal
		Twenty-five thousand (25,000) children have been identified by City Schools as in need of academic enhancement, yet this service is provided to less than 10% (2,400) students.
		The unpleasant truth is that city schools with the willing assistance of the pressespecially the Union-Tribunehas managed to hide these truths from the electorate.
		TPT wants to be a place where the community can discover the truth about the mis-education of their children and apply that truth to changing City Schools.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~rgibson/sandiegopeoples.htm (628 words)

	Local Schools Brace For Cuts - Local News Story - KNSD \| San Diego
		SAN DIEGO -- School board members said they had no other choice but to cut dozens of jobs from San Diego's public schools by the end of July, NBC 7/39 reported.
		A representative of San Diego City Schools said the cuts would save up to $8 million, and another $9 million would be saved from staff retirements or resignations.
		San Diego City Schools said district enrollment has dropped by about 20,000 students since 1999.
	www.nbcsandiego.com /news/9031275/detail.html (331 words)

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