Tag: Reality Changers

  • City Heights Students Are Mixed On New SAT ‘Adversity Scores’

    City Heights Students Are Mixed On New SAT ‘Adversity Scores’

    Many colleges and universities will get more than just your typical SAT score to determine next year’s incoming freshman class. A new score is supposed to give schools more context about a student’s background.

  • City Heights Nonprofit Reality Changers Launches New Campaign

    The nonprofit that was founded in 2001 launched its “Give to the Future” campaign on Wednesday, and hopes to send 1,000 children to college at the end of this school year. By Dwane Brown For eight years, City Heights-based nonprofit Reality Changers has held its “State of the Inner City” address on the same day…

  • How Reality Changers Won Big by Betting on Longshots

    Eduardo Corona is a Reality Changers success story. Once a gang member, he’s now attending college and leading a Reality Changers program. | Photo Courtesy of Quiet Pictures By Mario Koran Here in this corner of City Heights, busted childhoods are rewritten. The stories are reframed, polished and packaged as college entrance essays, winning tickets…

  • Reality Changers to Expand Services

    By Kyla Calvert   Mayoral candidates San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio and Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher joined city schools Superintendent Bill Kowba in applauding the planned expansion of Reality Changers at the organization’s annual “State of the Inner City Address.” The event always preceeds the mayor’s State of the City Address. Reality Changers President Christopher Yanov…