School's out: East Bay kids ask state lawmakers how they spent their childhood summers

06-27-2011

By Katy Murphy/Oakland Tribune

On the first day of summer, yellow school buses unloaded dozens of students from the Mt. Diablo, San Francisco and Sacramento school districts in front of the state Capitol. It might have looked like a typical field trip, but it was more than that. The students came to Sacramento to champion a cause that experts believe will help them and their classmates succeed in school: high-quality summer programs in low-income neighborhoods. Gagan Lally, a 12-year-old from Bay Point, said she couldn't take yet another summer of "staying home, sleeping in and hanging around the house," so she enrolled in a program at Riverview Middle School where she's playing sports, taking field trips and eating nutritious food. She said she worries about some of her friends who haven't done the same. (more...)

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