As San Diego schools plan reforms, details are still elusive
By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
Critics call San Diego Unified a failing school district. Even worse, they say, it has turned down federal reforms -- and federal money to back them. The school district argues it has reform plans of its own. Plans to amp up critical thinking. Plans to encourage teachers to collaborate. Plans to empower schools to make their own decisions instead of imposing ideas from the top. Plans to ensure that each child is measured individually. But the school district still has to translate most of those plans into concrete changes in classrooms. (more...)