Morning Report: Cloudy Future for Lauded Arts Program

For nearly a quarter century, National City’s A Reason to Survive community arts program has provided arts programming and a welcoming embrace of community to thousands of families in some of San Diego County’s lowest income neighborhoods. Now the organization’s future looks increasingly uncertain. Negotiations with National City officials over ARTS’ city-owned building have been…

Morning Report: Showdown Over County Budget Reserve

San Diego County’s two Democratic supervisors plan to force a vote on Tuesday on their proposal to give county officials greater leeway to tap fiscal reserves during a time of unprecedented budget uncertainty. Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Monica Montgomery Steppe, the Board’s two Democrats, know their proposal will fail. Joel Anderson and Jim Desmond, their…

Morning Report: Mad Love for Middle School Sports

For non-San Diegans (like today’s humble Morning Report writer) maybe you weren’t aware: Many schools have not historically offered middle school sports.  San Diego Unified changed that in the 2021-22 school year. And, it turns out, people LOVED it, as our Jakob McWhinney found out.  The district offered just soccer in that first year, but…

Morning Report: How We Shook SANDAG

Eight years ago, former Voice of San Diego reporter Andrew Keatts realized that a 2004 transportation tax measure wasn’t pulling in the cash that officials projected it would. That initial discovery would eventually lead to a bigger one with major implications for 2016 ballot Measure A and San Diego Association of Governments, which relied on…

Morning Report: Colleges Are Using AI to Combat AI-Powered Fraudsters

As AI’s presence in higher education continues to grow, it’s brought a new set of challenges for community colleges throughout the nation – AI-powered fraudsters. People are increasingly using stolen identities to receive financial aid from community colleges, and they’re using AI tools to do it. These tools can help fraudsters complete assignments, email professors,…

Morning Report: Facing Cuts, Democratic Supes Want to Raid County Reserves

Progressives have long wanted the county to raid its large reserve account. Now, facing possible federal cuts and a $138.5 million budget deficit, our Lisa Halverstadt reports that the two Democrats on the county Board of Supervisors are urging two key policy tweaks they argue could unleash cash to shield county residents from losing access…

Morning Report: Which Way Will the County Go?

In a county of 3 million people, the future hangs on just a few thousand voters. Slightly more than 66,000 people voted in the April 8 primary election to fill a vacant South County seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. If an equivalent number votes in the July 1 runoff between Imperial…

Morning Report: Charter Faces Blowback for Dialing Back German Immersion

Albert Einstein Academies Charter has long been known for being the only public school in the county with a 50/50 German language immersion program. That program is now in flux, as our Jakob McWhinney and Alina Ajaz report, and some parents are frustrated. School leaders recently notified parents they were reducing German instructional time. Parents…

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