SAN DIEGO–Two San Diego Unified schools will benefit from a five-year, $30 million federal Promise Neighborhoods grant under community collaboration said Wednesday at Perkins K-8 School. Perkins and the Logan Complex are among five schools selected to receive support from the initiative sponsored by the US Department of Education. The purpose of the grant is […]
Governor Newsom Signs Long-Discussed Charter School Transparency Legislation
SACRAMENTO–Alongside representatives from the California Charter School Association, California Teachers Association, California School Employees Association, California Federation of Teachers and SEIU California, Governor Gavin Newsom Monday signed Senate Bill 126, historic legislation requiring all schools that receive taxpayer funding to follow the same standards for accountability and transparency. “It’s common sense. Taxpayers, parents and ultimately kids deserve […]
Engineers Developing Education Kit To Teach Students Practical Skills In Integrated Photonics
(Newswise)–Engineers at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland, are developing an educational toolkit to bring integrated photonics into the college engineering and science curriculum. The toolkit is designed to teach undergraduates practical skills in integrated photonics, including how to characterize and test photonics integrated circuits—skills that […]
Workforce Partnership Awarded $1.2 Million To Connect Education To Employment
SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Workforce Partnership was named as a winner of a philanthropic funding contest by national nonprofit Strada Education Network. The Workforce Partnership was awarded $1.2M to increase access and diversity in tech through income share agreements (ISAs), a student loan alternative by which a student agrees to pay a small proportion of […]
National Academy Of Inventors Inducts Two UC San Diego Scholars
(Newswise)–Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and Professor Susan Taylor of the University of California San Diego were both named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). They are a part of the NAI’s 2018 cohort of 148 new fellows who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation and whose work has improved the quality of […]
San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Earns National Award For Excellence
SAN DIEGO–(PRNewswire)–The Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University (SDSU) said Thursday that the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center was honored with the Nasdaq Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurial Centers (GCEC). Created by the Nasdaq Stock Market in conjunction with GCEC, the award recognizes university entrepreneurship programs that have […]
Local Girl Scouts Lead Effort To Train Students In Hands-Only CPR
SAN DIEGO–For nearly four years, members of La Jolla Girl Scout Troop 3803, Selma Hyytinen, Maggie Johnson, Natalie Saham, Allison Foerster and Amber Watt, have been raising community awareness about sudden cardiac arrest, and have assisted in the training of more than 600 middle school students and staff members in Hands-Only CPR/AED (Automated External Defibrillator) […]
Barona Tribe Awards Tierra Del Sol Middle School An Education Grant
SAN DIEGO– (PRNewswire)–Tierra del Sol Middle School in Lakeside has received a $5,000 Barona Education Grant from the Barona Band of Mission Indians. The school plans to use the funding for “Project Lead the Way” (PLTW) materials, a nationally recognized program which provides transformative learning experiences for students and teachers in computer science, engineering and […]
Scripps Research Professor Wendy Havran Named 2018 Outstanding Mentor
(Newswise)–Trainees in the lab of Wendy Havran, PhD, don’t just learn to be great immunologists—they also learn how to be effective mentors. Havran, a professor at Scripps Research and associate dean of the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences, was recently named the 2018 Outstanding Mentor by the Society of Fellows, a postdoctoral […]
Barona Band Of Mission Indians Awards Johnson Elementary School $5,000 Grant For Swivl Technology
SAN DIEGO–The Barona Band of Mission Indians has awarded students and teachers at Henry C. Johnson Elementary School in San Diego a $5,000 Barona Education Grant. The public elementary school will use the grant to purchase innovative Swivl C5 classroom technology to advance education for students. The grant was sponsored by California State Senator Toni […]
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