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This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us When the COVID-19 crisis forced schools across California to physically close in March, the San Diego Unified School Board moved quickly to make sure that students who depend on school breakfasts and lunches would continue to receive daily meals. In order to prioritize where to first establish distribution sites for school meals, the school board identified the neighborhoods where the highest percentage of st

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us This November, San Diegans will vote on Measure C titled, "Charter Amendment: District-Only Elections for School Board Members." Measure C seeks to correct a decades-long battle for voter rights in San Diego Unified elections, establishing district-only contests for school board candidates, which will be consistent with all other San Diego elected positions. It will also bring the City Charter into compliance

Public education is failing communities of color. It's time to address the issue and stop defending the indefensible.

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-rich country of Qatar. But while Qatar boasts the highest income per capita in the world, Latino youth have been hamstrung due to decades of disinvestment in their local schools and communities. This November, Californians have an opportunity to rectify these inequities at the ballot box by passing

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 Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday. The newspaper focused on the point that Amendment 3 is opposed by both major parties and that alone is ample reason to support the amendment. “The bosses want you to vote against constitutional amendment No. 3 this fall,” the paper writes. “They’re worried it might loosen

This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us Three of the largest wildfires ever to scorch California are burning right now. Millions are choking on ash up and down the coast, after suffering from record breaking heat storms and rolling blackouts. Amidst a global pandemic, these disasters are just the opening salvo of human caused climate change that are only getting worse. For a state that prides itself as a climate leader—setting lofty goals for zero

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, Francisco Tzul noticed people at his downtown Los Angeles garment factory start to cough. In a few days, they would disappear. Tzul, 56, is an undocumented worker in the city’s massive garment industry, one that relies on men and women like him to produce shirts, blouses and skirts for major fashion brand

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 called it? Or is neglecting race as a factor in admissions denying the reality that many students endure racism as an impediment to academic progress? Rising from the heat of those passions are complicated data points that both backers and opponents of Proposition 16 — the November ballot item that ask

Editor's Note: This article originally published on Governing and has been republished on IVN with permission from the author. ‍ Election specialists and national security experts have been gaming out scenarios for this November, assessing how candidates, supporters and media will respond if voting results are delayed or disputed. The 40 secretaries of state who are chief election officials also play important roles in these scenarios. Local-level officials handle ballot-counting and other key

Before 2020, Court Jones and his wife, Debbie Burmeister, said they thrived in the arts industry, finding an abundance of work in drawing live, digital caricatures at parties and trade shows. But when Jan. 1 rolled around, the couple said their careers became complicated with the pandemic and Assembly Bill 5, a new law that limits how much work an independent contractor can perform before being classified as an employee. “We’ve lost a lot of work this year,” Jones said. “But it’s kind of hard t