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Community college students go back to school as SDCCD plans for a post-pandemic future

By M.G. Perez / Education Reporter

Contributors: Megan Burke / News Editor

Published August 22, 2022 at 5:24 PM PDT

This story was published more than 2 years ago.

A criminal justice textbook for sale at Miramar College bookstore, Aug. 3, 2022.

Community college students across the county went back to school on Monday.

This fall, almost 45,000 of them are attending classes in the San Diego Community College District.

For the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, the district is completely reopened with most students on campus at City, Mesa, and Miramar Colleges along with the San Diego College of Continuing Education school.

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M.G. Perez

As education reporter, M.G. Perez covered stories on education in the San Diego region, from Pre-K to college and beyond. In addition to a background in journalism, M.G. spent seven years as a teacher with San Diego Unified School District, in classrooms supporting students with mild to severe special needs. Prior to becoming a teacher, M.G.’s extensive career in broadcast journalism included general assignment reporting at KFMB-TV in San Diego, KPRC-TV in Houston, KGO-TV in San Francisco, and WNBC-TV in New York.

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