San Diego schools and universities should remain closed to students and staff until our vaccination rates are high enough, we have the right support for schools to reopen tackling the airborne nature of the COVID-19, or both.
COVID-19 Spread By Students, and Air
Schools and universities that reopened last fall turned their counties into hotspots throughout the nation. We’ve lived with COVID-19 for nearly a year now; we continue to make the wrong choices and are shocked when we’re faced with the consequences of them. …
As an alumnus of the Milton Hershey School (Class of 2006) I am very proud and inspired by the news that they intend to enter into early childhood education space.
The Milton Hershey School (MHS) is a unique institution as it is both the wealthiest K-12 institution in the world and has a mandate to only serve children with the least means — for free. While the adjective describing students with the “least means” has changed over the years our situation has not. When I was a student at MHS we went by ‘at-risk’ but we have also gone by…
In the past ten years, I paid nearly triple for loans I took out in undergrad.
- I took out two loans at 13.5% & 11.5% totaling 23K as a junior and ended up paying 64,305.23 for them over the span of a decade.
- My loans were not covered by the CARES act, it just opened an opportunity to pay them off. If it were not for the CARES act I would have paid 86,765.75.
- I would have been rejected for PSLF even though I have worked for eligible nonprofits for the past decade.
- In my 32 years on this earth…
It has to be said: Kamala Harris is not going to stand in the way of criminal justice reform.
“America’s sidewalks are stained with Black blood. In the wake of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s murders, we must ask ourselves: how many more times must our families and our communities be put through the trauma of an unarmed Black man or woman’s killing at the hands of the very police who are sworn to protect and serve them?” — Kamala Harris
If you are like me, you too have seen many conflicting messages regarding Kamala Harris during this election cycle…
The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended every aspect of life for Americans. Schools were not immune to this disruption and many face dire choices for reopening this fall. San Diego Unified School District’s choice to remain closed is the right choice as no school in the US should reopen until the pandemic is under control nationwide.
Evolution of the 2020 Pandemic in the United States
Without clear federal leadership, states have had different responses and reopening plans. The beginning of the pandemic in Spring 2020 was centered around an outbreak in New York City. Those who were spreading the virus…
Jamison Langguth
Drexel Psychology 2010, Penn Ed Policy 2015, Harvard Health Management 2018, Yale Blavatnik Fellow 2020
