Claire Trageser

Last year, in the midst of a long-running lawsuit, the city’s housing commission raised its voucher amounts significantly.

Experts don’t know exactly why case numbers were so high, especially in the fall, but they have some good guesses.

Some parents and early childhood education experts say schools have not been adequately prepared for California’s new multibillion-dollar program that brings 4-year-olds into elementary classrooms.

An unintended consequence of the state’s multibillion-dollar early education program is the damage being done to the business model of traditional child care providers.

While police agencies have made some progress, women are still vastly underrepresented in law enforcement leadership, which makes it harder to change male-dominated cultures.

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota at police hands, California stepped up with a plan: Put the state in charge of investigating police shootings of unarmed people. CalMatters is tracking these cases and, so far, the Justice Department is struggling to keep up.

San Diego County went from reliably Republican to a place where Democrats and no-party-preference voters dominate.

This school year the California transitional kindergarten program began expanding to eventually include all 4-year-olds. But amidst a teacher shortage, some school districts had to move teachers already on staff or lure staff away from preschool programs.

The measure would allow the city to lease park and rec property to childcare centers, which supporters say would help alleviate the city’s childcare crisis.

So far just six have been released by departments in San Diego County.

Even more unusual according to legal experts is that Kristie Bruce-Lane, who is running against Assemblyman Brian Maienschein in the November election, used the 6-year-old boys’ full names in the lawsuit.

Effective immediately, the Education Omnibus Bill changes state health and safety codes to allow younger kids to enroll in aftercare programs.

The city’s police department revised training for nonlethal force and, with community input, crafted a de-escalation training program.

The city of San Diego has stopped requiring employees to take weekly COVID tests, after firing eight employees who had previously refused to take the tests for religious reasons.

The city has just one pickleball-only public court. It’s in the recently-opened Fairbrook Park in Scripps Ranch.

The region doesn’t do a great job of keeping students around after graduation.

San Diego city employees, who refuse both to be vaccinated and tested for COVID-19 on religious grounds, are now at risk of being fired.

About 10% of police staff, who successfully obtained religious exemptions to forgo the COVID-19 vaccine, are also insisting their Christian beliefs instruct them not to use the swabs because they contain ethylene oxide.

Records show staffers for local officeholders use the encrypted messaging app Signal. Experts say this circumvents California’s public records law.

A review of more than 100 exemption requests on religious grounds from San Diego Police Department staffers, showed that nearly all included the same Bible passages copied from the internet.