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Recent Stories by Emily Alpert:
 E-mail Emily Alpert at emily.alpert@voiceofsandiego.org
Emily Alpert reports on education countywide. She moved to San Diego from Gilroy, where she covered public safety issues for the Gilroy Dispatch. There, she won the California Newspaper Publishers Association second-place award for business reporting among similarly-sized papers. Emily is a three-time Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards nominee, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, and in her spare time, a lesser-known karaoke luminary.
Pulling photos from the personal archives.
Friday, November 20 -- 4:27 pm
Just how much water is used at Balboa Park Golf Course and what's driving the Port District's consumption.
Friday, November 20 -- 4:20 pm
You can't mandate that kids buy books, uniforms or other supplies for a school activity -- even if it's an extracurricular.
Friday, November 20 -- 12:14 pm
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(Oct. 8, 2009) — One year after San Diego Unified created a program to nurture children who were held back in middle school, budget problems and poor planning ended it. (Oct. 12, 2009) — Nearly every time a County Office of Education executive tells her boss that the agency should get outside legal help, her husband's law firm gets the work. (Oct. 14, 2009) — The teachers union is pulling for a new rule to limit workloads. Principals say it will handcuff them. How did it work elsewhere? (Sept. 9, 2009) — No Child Left Behind requires a qualified teacher in every classroom. That proved sticky for a new program that allows teens to make up failed classes. (Sept. 16, 2009) — Every high school in San Diego Unified offers the classes that kids need to apply to the public university system. Why do so few teenagers actually complete them? (Sept. 21, 2009) — A Point Loma elementary school is one of a handful in San Diego Unified to test whether using methods for gifted children can help spur deeper thinking and higher scores among all kids. (Sept. 23, 2009) — An outside report finds that as San Diego Unified goes into another year of budget cuts, it still has a budget riddled with systemic problems that make it difficult to track money accurately. (Aug. 20, 2009) — Patty Cueva wanted neighbors to band together when things were wrong in Logan Heights. But first they had to get to know each other. (Aug. 18, 2009) — The gains are a coup for Superintendent Terry Grier and the school board. But it is still unclear if they will make the grade under No Child Left Behind. (Aug. 19, 2009) — It is no surprise that his eyes would wander: Grier has clashed repeatedly with the school board since a new, labor-backed majority was elected in November. |
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