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ELECTION2020 RESULTS GONZALEZ RETURNING TO80TH B Y M ARL E NA H ARVE Y News Editor or ena Gonzalez was r eelected to the Califor nia State Assembly to r epr esent the 80th distr ict after the November 3 election. She has r epr esented this distr ict since she was elected in 2013. Gonzalez, the pr ojected winner, tweeted she was ?pleased with the r esults.? Gonzalez is a Democr atic politician who was bor n and r aised in San Diego. Gonzalez was a huge suppor ter of # NoOn22, which was par t of her platfor m to fight cor por ate gr eed. Gonzalez?s message to her distr ict was that it was her mission to help the wor king and middle class. She was the fir st L atina in California histor y to Chair the Assembly Appr opr iations Committee. Gonzalez cur r ently r esides in the City Heights neighbor hood of San Diego with her husband and childr en.
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PROP25 FAILSTOPASS D escr ipt ion: Replacing cash bail with Risk Assessments Refer endum What it means: Cash bail would be kept in place for detained suspects who ar e waiting for tr ail Next st eps: L ex Steppling?s or ganization, Dignity and Power Now, their next plan is to impr ove the jail system fr om the gr ound up. His gr oup plans on pushing the Pr eser ving the Pr esumption of I nnocence plan. Quot able: ?We made pr ogr ess towar ds collective liber ation, but this is only the beginning.? ? No on 25 statement ? Rachel de la Torre
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he San Diego Community College Distr ict Boar d of Tr ustees has star ted a national sear ch for a r eplacement for Chancellor Constance Car r oll. Car r oll who has ser ved as chancellor of the San Diego Community College Distr ict since 2004, announced in Januar y that she will be r etir ing in June 2021. Car r oll has over seen impor tant changes within the San Diego Community College Distr ict, the second lar gest in the state. As Car r oll embar ks on her last year befor e r etir ement, she has mixed feelings. ?On the one hand, I do think it?s time for me to make a change, and for the distr ict to have new leader ship, on the other hand I am going to miss a gr eat deal, par ticular ly seeing all of you, the gr eat faculty of our institutions,? she said in the vir tual convocation at the star t of the fall 2020 ter m. She also addr essed the difficulties of r emote instr uctions dur ing the pandemic. Volume75, Issue1| November 20, 2020 PublishedasTheJay Sees(1945-1949), Fortknightly (1949-1978), City Times(1978-present). Incorporatingnewspapers Tecolote, Knight Owl &Flicks. District policy statement: Thispublication isproducedasalearningexperienceunder SanDiegoCity College?s Digital Journalismprogram. All materials, includingopinions expressed herein, arethesole responsibilityof thestudentsandshould not be interpretedtobethoseof thecollegedistrict, itsofficersor employees.
?The pandemic has changed the face of ever ything we do - the faculty had to r amp up immediately to tur n the r est of our classes online," she said. "This was no easy task.? Accor ding to the latest data available, the tr ansfer r ate fr om SDCCD to four-year univer sities has incr eased. The r epor t found that ther e wer e 854 mor e tr ansfer s fr om SDCCD to a four-year institution in 2017-18 than in 2013-14. Most of the tr ansfer r ing students chose one of the Cal State Univer sity campuses. SDSU appear s to be the pr efer r ed univer sity, with 30 per cent of SDCCD tr ansfer students ending up at SDSU in 2017-18, while Cal State San Mar cos takes thir d place with 3.7 per cent tr ansfer s after UC San Diego with mor e than 9 per cent.
CSU select s new chancellor Changes ar e coming to the CSU as Joseph Castr o has been selected to lead the biggest four-year public univer sity system in the countr y. He will be the fir st Califor nian and the fir st Mexican Amer ican to hold the position. Duringthefall 2020 semester, CityTimeswill publish onlineregularly, or asnewsbreaks, onsdcitytimes.com asof Monday, Aug. 17throughMonday, Dec. 14. Studentsareworkingremotely duringthepandemic. CityTimes andLegendmagazinewill publishas digital editionsfor in thefall 2020 term. Signed opinionsarethoseof theindividual writersand donot necessarily represent thoseof theentire newspaper staff, City Collegeadministration, faculty andstaff or theSanDiegoCommunity CollegeDistrict Board of Trustees.
The new chancellor will be leading a univer sity system with 23 campuses acr oss a diver se state of Califor nia dur ing the cor onavir us pandemic. Castr o?s gr andpar ents wer e far mwor ker s fr om Mexico and r aised him along with his mother, who wor ked as a beautician. Castr o was a student at UC Ber keley thr ough a pr ogr am for L atino students fr om far ming communities and was the fir st in his family to gr aduate fr om a univer sity. I n 2013, he was the fir st Califor nia native to become the pr esident of Fr esno State, wher e he is known as an advocate for equity. Castr o?s academic and life exper iences will r esemble that of many of the students enr olled at Cal State univer sities, wher e over 40% of students identify as Hispanic/L atinx. ?I ?m hopeful that being a Califor nian with 30 year s of exper ience in public higher education and being educated all my life in Califor nia will give me some insights that per haps other s have not had in the past,? Castr o said dur ing an inter view with Ber keley News. Howtoreachus: CityTimes SanDiegoCityCollege 1313 Park Blvd. | San Diego, CA92101 Newsroom: L-117 E-mail: citytimes@gmail.com Memberships: JournalismAssociationof Community Colleges CaliforniaCollegeMediaAssociation Associated CollegiatePress CaliforniaNewspaper Publishers Association
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