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Help them help US! Ten Sacramento community organizations that need all hands on deck

By Tracy • Jul 28th, 2008 | Bookmark and Share

community outreach sacramentoInstead of entertaining new taxes, entertain this idea: Much of the crime in Sacramento is being committed by juvenile delinquents who are not being nurtured and guided through the maturation process. What’s missing from the lives of most of these young people is simply an adult who will hold them accountable.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Fargo’s new tax, and the purported fifty new police officers it will bring to Sacramento, aren’t going to magically produce those…

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Combatting truancy: One-size-fits-all districts and youth programs getting left behind along with kids

By Tracy • Jul 21st, 2008 | Bookmark and Share

truancy in sacramentoEd note: Our first guest article.. and it’s a DANDY!

Thanks to Joe’s recent post, I’ve been mulling my former teaching career and the idea of what keeps kids in school anyway? I won’t rehash the statistics but essentially, Natomas Unified is failing to keep kids in school. Why is that and what can we do to make it better?

I stumbled across an old Dept of Ed article called “Manual to Combat Truancy.” This line in particular jumped out at me “I’ve…

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