I just got back from vacation and I'm raring to start reporting! Send me your tips and burning questions at emily.alpert@voiceofsandiego.org to help me get the party started again. But first, your morning newsblitz:
- The Union-Tribune reports that a Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against a labor pact on the $2.1 billion school construction bond for San Diego Unified schools, but opponents of the pact, who claim it unfairly discriminates against non-union apprenticeship programs, are appealing the ruling.
- Also in the UT: Tardiness and attendance at one local high school seemed to be linked to parents' inability to pay for public transit, so one principal is seeking donations to help cover bus passes.
- KPBS sums up the budget cut challenges for San Diego Unified nicely in a year-end piece.
- Fallbrook high schools are settling a lawsuit over free speech in a school newspaper, which was barred from printing a news article and an editorial about sex education, with a $20,000 payment to the American Civil Liberties Union and $7,500 for the faculty advisor to the school newspaper, the North County Times reports. The two blocked pieces were printed in April.
- SDNN looks at how adult education programs are faring at universities despite budget cuts.
- Up in Los Angeles, teachers are vying to take control of the schools they work in, the Times reports. It's one twist in the controversial new plan to allow groups, such as charter