Recent Articles
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Education Matters: Oversight committees, salaries, and school start times
One of the factors that school districts and their consultants use to encourage voter support for General Obligation bonds is to emphasize that school districts must create an Independent Citizens Oversight Committee. ICOC members are entrusted to watch how bond money is spent. This is intended...
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Education Matters: The definition of dysfunctional
The word “dysfunctional” has been used repeatedly to describe the San Dieguito Union High School District’s Board of Education. It’s even been said that dysfunction at the board level is the biggest problem facing San Dieguito. But there is a difference, a significant difference, between a board...
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Education Matters: The bullied and the bored: Tips for victimized students and for innovative teachers [Part Two]
In addition to live-action role-playing strategies for academic learning, discussed in last week’s column, other panels at San Diego’s 2018 Comic-Con presented fascinating information about using comics and graphic novels to teach students core curriculum lessons. There’s an “endless array of opportunities...
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Education Matters: The bullied and the bored: Tips for victimized students and for innovative teachers
Comic-Con’s mission statement begins: “Comic-Con International San Diego is a nonprofit educational corporation …” Although pop culture is integral to its overall mission, Comic-Con’s educational component looms large, beyond the film and television stars and glitz and cosplay. Many Comic-Con panels...
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Education Matters: DMUSD’s tug-of-war
Although Del Mar Union School District Superintendent Holly McClurg announced at the May 23 school board meeting that a General Obligation bond is no longer being considered, apparently it’s not off the table yet. Since then, she said she has received “significant input” from community members...
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Education Matters: Gun resolution misfires in Del Mar
How did it come to this? Children worry about being gunned down at school. Parents fear for their children’s lives when they send them off to be educated in what are supposed to be safe learning environments. Educators spend precious money meant for curriculum, supplies and classrooms on ways to...
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Education Matters: Community pushback forces retreat on school facilities plan
Either the Del Mar Union School District badly misjudged the attitude of the community, forgot to advise the city of Del Mar, or pushed too suddenly for a newly revised Facilities Master Plan and a General Obligation bond. Or all of the above. After more than a dozen community meetings scheduled...
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Education Matters: San Dieguito pay raises and more
Buried on page 1,366 of a monster 1,399-page April 19 board meeting agenda was a request for the San Dieguito Union High School District school board to approve pay raises for management and so-called “non-represented” employees. This item was approved by a vote of 4-1. The raises are retroactive...