Tag: Central Elementary School

  • Tweet City Heights: City Can No Longer Afford Added Library Hours

    By Megan Burks City Can No Longer Afford Added Library Hours The city’s pension board made an unexpected decision last week. It won’t reduce the city’s pension bill despite a five-year labor deal the mayor thought would yield instant savings. What that all means for neighborhoods: the added library hours the mayor and City Council…

  • Despite Overall Budget Increases, Principals Seeing Less Instructional Funding

    Central Elementary School teacher Cindy Robinson, pictured in 2009, works with students in her kindergarten class. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Lisa Halverstadt Cutbacks are now the norm at San Diego Unified School District but unless you’re a parent or teacher at a school, it can be difficult to gauge the true impact of…

  • More Than ‘A Feeling’: Cindy Marten on What Makes a Good School

    By Will Carless Some community members were unnerved by the San Diego Unified school board’s sudden and unilateral pick of Cindy Marten as superintendent — including, apparently, Marten herself, she revealed at Tuesday night’s One Voice at a Time event. “Because the community was skipped, and it was done overnight, I’m not skipping the community…

  • Fact Checking ‘Record’ Test Scores at Central Elementary

    By Will Carless At the San Diego Unified School board meeting announcing the appointment of Cindy Marten as the district’s new superintendent, news reporters were handed two pieces of paper. One was a transcript of the statement board President John Lee Evans was about to read. The other was a press release detailing Marten’s bio…

  • Central’s Mediocre Numbers, Multiplied by Marten’s ‘X Factor’

    By Will Carless It’s very rare that all five San Diego Unified school board members agree on something. But in February, the board made a decision that was both unanimous and unorthodox when it named an elementary school principal Cindy Marten as the next superintendent of California’s second-largest school district. In their announcement, the board…