San Pasqual Academy Is Still Fighting for Its Life
Community members are celebrating another extension staving off closure, but said that county leaders need to work harder to keep the school open long term. They believe the facility provides a crucial option for foster youth who don’t have stable homes to live in.
San Pasqual Academy / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
San Pasqual Academy can keep its doors open a little longer but its ultimate fate is still unclear, and it’s causing turmoil between the school community and state and county leaders. The young people who live at the boarding school for foster youth in Escondido don’t know whether they’re going to be able to live and attend school there next summer, or if the next year is going to be a long transitioning process out of the campus.
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As COVID-19 spreads unchecked across the region and state, San Diego County officials are leaving vacant hundreds of hotel rooms they had reserved for sick or at-risk people, even though much of the cost is being subsidized by state and federal relief funds.
The county’s level of participation in one hotel shelter program was so minimal that just 6 percent of the available rooms were occupied last month.
Last week, after a major outbreak recently infected at least 170 people at the San Diego Convention Center’s temporary homeless shelter, the occupancy rate of hotels in the program rose to 26 percent.