Tag: Crawford High School

  • Appearing a Chair and a Table Out of Thin Air

    Appearing a Chair and a Table Out of Thin Air

    The first day of high school was like stepping into an alternate universe. My previous school – Iftin Charter School – was homogeneous in its composition of Muslim, Somali and first-generation students. There, I fit flush with the student population. It was a larger, more hectic, version of my own home. At Crawford High School,…

  • Students talk about equity in school lunch menus

    Students talk about equity in school lunch menus

    Food Fight explores the ideas of food justice and food equity through the lens of a teenager in City Heights. Students from Hoover High School and Crawford High School who advocate for food justice and diversity on their cafeteria menu share their own ideas.

  • New School Discipline Program Has Fans and Results, But Few Participating Schools

    A few years ago, San Diego Unified launched pilot program aimed at incorporating a new approach to school discipline, called restorative justice, to the district. Restorative justice brings someone who has done something wrong together with their victims — to listen, understand, empathize and heal. When student offenders participate in restorative justice exercises, they may…

  • Students Ask San Diego Unified For More Structure in Discipline Program

    By Matt Bowler The success of a discipline program at Crawford High School has students asking the San Diego Unified School District to expand the program. The program, Restorative Justice, helps students figure out why they misbehave. The idea is to treat the offending act like a symptom. Crawford High School Academy of Law student…

  • Many Parents Avoiding City Heights Schools

    San Diego Unified School District’s trustees are having a workshop Tuesday to discuss why some schools are having trouble persuading the neighbors around them to enroll their kids. For the sixth straight year, enrollment in district-run schools (not charters) is projected to go down in the 2015-2016 school year. Superintendent Cindy Marten has often talked about…