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How the Education System Fuels Racism, Inequality
How the Education System Fuels Racism, Inequality
This is Part One of a two-part series on racism and the education system. Part Two will be published on Monday, Sept. 28. The education system is “particularly effective at reproducing racial inequali...
Supreme Court Makes Local Tax Hikes Easier
Supreme Court Makes Local Tax Hikes Easier
IVN San Diego Editor's Note: This Supreme Court ruling could have a big effect on San Diego. A proposed hotel tax increase came just short of winning a two-thirds vote in March. Supporters will likely...
Let’s Protect Our Right to Elect the School Board — Vote No on Measure C
Let’s Protect Our Right to Elect the School Board — Vote No on Measure C
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usWhen the COVID-19 crisis forced schools across California to physically close in March, the San Diego Unified Scho...
Measure C Will Correct a Decades-Long Battle for Voter Rights in San Diego Schools
Measure C Will Correct a Decades-Long Battle for Voter Rights in San Diego Schools
Public education is failing communities of color. It's time to address the issue and stop defending the indefensible.
Measure C Will Correct a Decades-Long Battle for Voter Rights in San Diego Schools
Measure C Will Correct a Decades-Long Battle for Voter Rights in San Diego Schools
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usThis November, San Diegans will vote on Measure C titled, "Charter Amendment: District-Only Elections for School B...
Prop. 15 Will Create a Just, Equitable Future for All
Prop. 15 Will Create a Just, Equitable Future for All
With more than 3 million people, California’s K-12 Latino student population could be its own country. In fact, there are more Latinos studying in our public schools than there are people in the oil-r...
Orlando Sentinel: Don't Let Party Bosses Rob You of Your Right to Vote
Orlando Sentinel: Don't Let Party Bosses Rob You of Your Right to Vote
ORLANDO, FLA. - Amendment 3 in Florida, the ballot measure that would adopt nonpartisan top-two open primaries for state executive and legislative elections, received a major endorsement from the Orla...
Climate Disasters Demand Immediate, Equitable Action
Climate Disasters Demand Immediate, Equitable Action
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.usThree of the largest wildfires ever to scorch California are burning right now. Millions are choking on ash up and...
Bill’s Defeat Keeps Undocumented Garment Workers in Meager Wages
Bill’s Defeat Keeps Undocumented Garment Workers in Meager Wages
Before he was hospitalized with COVID-19, before his roommates kicked him out of their shared apartment because of his illness, before he found himself unhoused for the first time in his life, Francis...
How to Make Sense of Affirmative Action in UC Admissions
How to Make Sense of Affirmative Action in UC Admissions
Is affirmative action “the enemy of white people who are contractors and Americans of Asian descent who are trying to get into the University of California at Berkeley,” as one influential critic call...