IN THE NEWS: Three are named teachers of the year for school district

Three men who teach in the city's urban core have been honored as top educators in the San Diego Unified School District.

Bill Freeman, a fourth-grade teacher at Porter Elementary School in Lincoln Park; Michael Crawford, a science teacher at Clark Middle School in City Heights; and Phillippe Poncey, a drama and French teacher at San Diego High's School of International Studies downtown have been named the district's teachers of the year. Read More from the San Diego Union-Tribune