Edward Caballero will be reinstated as principal of Sherman Elementary School, Superintendent Terry Grier announced today at the San Diego Unified school board meeting.

After reading this story today about the tens of thousands of dollars in unseen bonuses received annually by officials at the Southeastern Economic Development Corp., Mayor Jerry Sanders sent a memo to the chairman of SEDC's board this afternoon demanding answers.

So I finally got in touch with the mayor's spokesman, Fred Sainz, to talk about the story we ran today on SEDC officials receiving tens of thousands of dollars a year in hidden bonuses and extra compensation.

As I pointed out in today's story, the top two officials at the Southeastern Economic Development Corp. have for years been paying themselves five-figure bonuses that are unseen by the agency's board of directors or the City Council.

It's official. Today is "National Council of La Raza Day" in San Diego.

After thinking about it for a few days, San Diego Independent Budget Analyst Andrea Tevlin has decided to travel to Sacramento Tuesday to be interviewed again for the open state legislative analyst job.

The bureaucratic wheels driving San Diego's new internal auditing framework mandated by the voter-approved Proposition C slowly began to turn Monday.

Encinitas Union School District is pushing to shut down a charter school, alleging self-dealing, lying and secret meetings held by its board of directors.

When San Diego Unified posted a draft of potential projects for a proposed facilities bond, a few eyebrows shot up. The list included replacing sewer systems and wiring at brand-new schools such as Lincoln High School.

San Diego City Hall has been inundated in recent days with hundreds of e-mails and scores of phone calls protesting a proposed City Council resolution to declare tomorrow "National Council of La Raza Day."

The New York Times' DealBook blog has this news about the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System looking to dig into the world of private equity.

Volunteers who cleaned up after the July 4 holiday scooped up 4,000 pounds of trash from six area beaches, according to the Surfrider Foundation's local chapter.

A change in how San Diego Unified describes what services it will provide for each special education student has worried parents, volunteers and school district staff, who cited it as a top concern in an annual special education report.

San Diego Unified Superintendent Terry Grier is scaling back one of his first initiatives after hearing parent and principal complaints.

Want to know what a new San Diego Unified facilities bond would do for your neighborhood school? A tentative list of projects, broken down by school, is now available.

Remember that whole back-and-forth over how much, exactly, San Diego Unified has in deferred maintenance? Those overdue repairs that get put aside when budgets drop or when other needs take priority?

My colleague David Washburn just got a call from the Navy wishing to respond to his story today on what the judge's recent ruling means for the future of the controversial development at Navy Broadway Complex.

Sports Illustrated staff photographer and Carlsbad resident Robert Beck had this article today, describing the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines as "The Greatest Event" he has ever photographed.

If you were thinking of getting around the booze ban at local beaches and state parks this holiday weekend by pouring your adult beverage into a different container, the plan just got more difficult.

Chinese schools usually leave visitors from the U.S. feeling pessimistic about the educational chops of U.S. kids. But when San Diego Unified school board member John de Beck returned from visiting China, he reflected that U.S. students could be in the catbird seat globally. (Check out this previous post about the China trip, who's paying for it and why.)

I spent part of my morning talking about the region's border sewage pollution problems on KPBS. It was part of an hour-long discussion examining the issue -- every time it rains, hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage are washed across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The San Diego County Taxpayers Association summed up its criticisms of the Unified Port of San Diego's $59,000 advertising campaign in a letter sent yesterday to the port.

A team of scientists from the University of California, San Diego have identified more than two dozen "novel and promising" compounds that could give rise to new bird-flu drugs.

With all the details that went into this story today by my colleague Will Carless, there wasn't room to explain another interesting detail of the Valencia Business Park saga.

There's plenty of talk right now about what life will be like at the beach on the Fourth of July without booze. If this Los Angeles Times travel section piece is any harbinger, it's going to be pretty laid back and family friendly.

The controversy over transferring principal-to-be Edward Caballero from Sherman Elementary to Jerabek Elementary in Scripps Ranch is still simmering.

We are teaming up with the San Diego Foundation to work on an exciting new project and we need your help.

An interesting detail popped out at me in Nick Canepa's column today in the Union-Tribune on the Chargers' stadium search:

Deputy Superintendent Geno Flores is leaving San Diego Unified, according to a high-ranking source within the school district who spoke on condition of not being identified. According to the same source, Flores is being replaced by Charles Morris, president of Edpro Consultants, Inc., a Greensboro-based group. Morris was hired in June, but his position was left to-be-determined.

A push for a bigger San Diego Unified school board with full-time duties fizzled at a City Council committee meeting last week.

San Diego Unified scored high on its financial report card from two major credit rating agencies, Standard & Poor's and Moody's. Both gave the school district their highest short-term ratings.

In advance of Friday's beachy festivities, environmental groups are reminding the public to pick up their July 4 litter.

Mayor Jerry Sanders kicked off a city program today that aims to spur the recycling of construction debris such as asphalt, lumber and concrete.

The days of pulling up to a border guard who asks you a couple of questions and expects to see some form of identification as you re-enter the United States after a day in Baja are quickly changing, and panelists at the Center for Ethics in Science & Technology want to talk about it.

After my story today about Vet-Stem, the Poway company using fat-derived adult stem cells to treat horses, dogs and cats with injuries like ligament tears and joint disease, I received more than a few e-mails from readers asking why the therapy isn’t available for humans.

Recruiters for the state of California have asked San Diego's independent budget analyst, Andrea Tevlin, to travel to Sacramento next week for a second round of interviews for the open state legislative analyst job.

One of the biggest of California's education bigwigs has endorsed challenger John Lee Evans in his bid to grab incumbent school board member Mitz Lee's seat representing District A.

Newsweek magazine has this tidbit today on Cindy McCain's La Jolla property:

So my colleague Scott Lewis and his wife, Ashley, spent the weekend at a motorcycle training program in Chula Vista run by the Pacific Safety Council. The Lewises just bought a scooter and they had to get their motorcycle licenses.

The San Diego Fire Fighters Local 145 has announced its support for city attorney challenger Jan Goldsmith. It's the third recent endorsement for the judge, who recently announced backing from Councilman Ben Hueso and the San Diego Police Officers Association.