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As COVID-19 Surges, So Do the Health Risks for San Diego's Frontline Workers

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.us In San Diego and throughout California, COVID-19 cases are rapidly increasing, putting our state’s frontline workers more a...

New Data Sheds Light on Parent Debt Burden for College Students

Never-before-released data from the federal government has shed new light on the debt burden of low-income families in California. More than 13,500 low-income students attending California’s two publi...

Why Classism Concerns San Diego Educators, Hurt Students

This is the second in a two-part series. Read the first part here . Providing preschool at the earliest stages of a child’s development can help close the achievement gap in learning for many low-inco...

Community College Enrollment Falls as Students Grapple with Job Loss, Online Learning

David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit. Lewis, 29, was already encountering scheduling conflicts betw...

How Educational Inequities Begin the Moment a Child Is Born

This is the first in a two-part series. Check back with IVN San Diego next week for the next column More than 50 years have passed since the groundbreaking Equality of Educational Opportunity Coleman ...

Internet Connection Is Biggest Struggle for San Diego Families Homeschooling

As COVID-19 continues to keep some schools closed, IVN San Diego reached out to parents to find out their biggest struggles. A strong Internet connection proved to be one of the biggest challenges. Wa...

California Women Smash Ceilings in National Politics — Not So Much in State Politics

With California’s junior senator Kamala Harris poised to become America’s first female vice president, a remarkable pattern has taken hold: Once again, a woman from California is making history in the...

What Comes After the Election? Religious Freedom or Gay Rights?

Dave Gatzke vividly remembers the Friday afternoon he and his husband, Tony, drove up from San Diego to Cedars Sinai, walked into the nursery, and held their son, Ethan, for the first time. Three year...

‘It’s a Horrible Narrative’: Black Women Are Losing Their Jobs Faster Than Others

Native San Diegan Shakema Martin says she may still be employed today if she weren’t Black. Martin, a Mira Mesa native, was working at a Carlsbad company until August when she caught COVID-19. She qua...

It's Time to Close the Digital Divide Because Having Internet Access is a Human Right

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Commun...

Closing the Distance: What Distance Learning Really Looks Like

The challenges presented to schools by the pandemic, particularly those serving students and families living in historically under-resourced communities, aren’t new -- these problems have long existed...

Conversation with Dr. Rodney Hood From the San Diego COVID-19 Equity Task Force

The San Diego COVID-19 Equity Task Force is an innovative, volunteer community-based coalition of stakeholders organized to discuss, advocate and help implement policies and strategies to address the ...
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