Here comes the neighborhood - Bites - Opinions - November 24, 2011 - Sacramento News & Review

Here comes the neighborhood - Bites - Opinions - November 24, 2011 - Sacramento News & Review:

Here comes the neighborhood

By Cosmo Garvin

cosmog@newsreview.com

This article was published on 11.24.11.

This past spring, the Sacramento City Unified School District changed its logo. The familiar red apple will be replaced with a green apple—to remind everyone that the district is “going green.” At least, it will be as soon as the old stationary runs out. It’s a small gesture, but an important one.
A bigger and more important gesture would be to bring back the idea of the neighborhood school.
That’s the notion behind the Sacramento Comprehensive High School Coalition—a group of parents in the central city and East Sacramento trying to create a public high school in their neighborhood. They aim to replace the one that was lost when Sacramento High was handed over to Kevin Johnson’s St. Hope organization to run as a charter school.
Their argument for a “pedestrian-friendly comprehensive high school” seems pretty reasonable and straightforward to Bites.
After all the Bitescave was chosen for similar reasons— it’s in a neighborhood that will allowNibbles and Bits to walk or bike to decent schools all the way through 12th grade. (Plus, it has