Rainy days might do it, but Monday never gets me down. I've got the newsblitz:
- We highlight a new vocabulary program aimed at helping children figure out the meanings of words, not just memorize them. It's meant to help poor students who learn far fewer words at home, handicapping them at school.
- The Union-Tribune writes that the Chula Vista superintendent is retiring.
- Helix High School, a charter school which had been in danger of getting shut down, will get to continue under an agreement with the Grossmont school district that includes the resignation of its principal, the Union-Tribune reports.
- After the racially offensive "Compton Cookout" party, UCSD is reaching out to Comptonin positive ways, the Los Angeles Times reports.
- SDNN writes that a lawsuit challenging the way in which California mandated algebra for all eighth graders has won an appeal.
- KPBS delves more into how some new laws proposed by a local legislator would impact San Diego State and other CSU schools.
- City News Service reports that a racial slur was written on a door at San Diego State.
- The U-T editorializes that