Stand Up Organization

EDUCATIONAL LINKS:

• StudentsFirst
• Reading Matters: Third Grade Reading Campaign
• Reading Matters: Third Grade Reading Campaign PowerPoint Presentation
• Education Equality Project
• Education Week

LOCAL SCHOOLS DISTRICTS:

• Sacramento City Unified School District
• Natomas Unified School District
• Robla Unified School District
• Elk Grove Unified School District
• Twin Rivers Unified School District
• Sacramento County Office of Education

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• Education that Works: Ideas for Sacramento
  A Working White Paper from the March 2009 Education Summit
• Office of Mayor Kevin Johnson
  It’s a resource designed for the Sacramento Constituents. On this site, you can learn more about my administration, my action plan for Sacramento, and the many ways you can get involved in the effort to make Sacramento a city that works for everyone.
• 2006 Oprah Winfrey Show
  In 2000 Kevin retired to focus on education. “I couldn’t wait to get out of the game so that I could do something bigger and more important than basketball,” he says. He now works full-time running the six schools that make up the St. Hope Public School System in Sacramento.
• Waiting for Superman
  The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill jobs to fill—and fewer than 50 million Americans qualified to fill them.