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Viewpoints: Plan to close UC Center seems ill-advised Published November 13, 2009
Twenty-five University of California students and graduates from UC campuses were gathered around a long table in a windowless basement conference room in downtown Sacramento for a brown-bag lunch. On one side were 10 recent graduates, many working in and around the Capitol, who had participated in a popular public policy program – a program they say prepared them more than any other college experience for the realities of working in politics and public policy.
Happy Owl Is A Class Full Of Love (PDF)
She is tiny and 3, clutching her blanket with a vengeance even Linus might find excessive.
Riles: No ‘Simple Answers’ For Education (PDF)
Polls show that Californians are terribly concerned about two things: crime and schools.
Her Math Adds Up (PDF)
Ricardo Zaragoza, 17, a senior at Luther Burbank Senior High School, has a trace of a Spanish accent – but only a trace. His family emigrated from Mexico when Ricardo was 11, and father works in a local cannery. Spanish is spoken at home and Ricardo says he still has to work at “thinking in English.”
Open Programs, Open Minds (PDF)
Patches is a pleasant, mild-mannered calico cat who lives in Audre McGranahan’s second and third grade classroom at the Mission Avenue School in Carmichael.
What’s Wrong With These Children? (PDF)
We’ve all seen the slack-jawed, dull eyed children sitting mesmerized in front of the tube. This is not about them, but rather about five Sacramento families who have take drastic action to curtail – or eliminate – the time they spent in front of the tube.
Students Gear Up For Jobs (PDF)
Derek Haberman is 17 and has been working for what seems like hours on an horrific contraption replete with thousands of tiny wires. He clearly does not like to be interrupted.
Wilson Riles: He’s Come Long Way (PDF)
Wilson Riles and his wife of 40 years, Mary Louise, live today in the same South Land Park house they bought 22 years ago from an “individual seller,” which in this case was 1959 real estate jargon for a white person willing to sell a house to a black person.
