Johnson aims to link city services with schools
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said Thursday he is organizing an effort to link city services with Sacramento school districts.
At a press conference at American Lakes Elementary School in Natomas, Johnson laid out a plan for how local schools can benefit from a relationship with city government.
Sacramento schools and the city should explore methods to share city facilities and to boost public safety and after-school efforts for schoolchildren, he said.
“We’re talking about the need to create a partnership in a way that we have not done in the past,” Johnson said to an audience that included a group of third graders.
City Hall and the school system need to bolster their relationship because both entities are experiencing