Katie Anastas

Point Loma High School teacher Jen Roberts is aware of concern about AI in schools. But she says certain tools can help students become better readers and writers.

They say standardized math test scores are an objective measure of students’ preparedness for college STEM courses.

Christopher Polentz’s design features a quill in the foreground. In the background, the sun breaks through the clouds.

The board’s 2023 decision left students without access to six mental health clinicians and a suicide prevention program for four months, according to the report.

UC San Diego students walk past the Applied Physics and Mathematics building on campus in La Jolla on Nov. 24, 2025.

A San Diego Unified School District student works on her school-issued laptop computer to complete an assignment at home in San Diego on May 23, 2023.

Changes in state funding, career training opportunities and access to college courses may be helping.

Candidates for the role oppose the decision, including Richard Barrera, San Diego Unified’s school board president.

Waitress Daisy Marlene Montes Carranza works at El Rincon restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego on April 16, 2024. The restaurant is one of several businesses that has been affected by recent closures of the U.S.-Mexico border.

One of the offices on the November ballot is California's Superintendent of Public Instruction. That elected official has led the state's Department of Education and made sure policies passed by lawmakers are implemented. Next year, that will change. Under an agreement approved as part of the state budget...