Graduating Today, Sac High Student Has Made Great Strides
The Sacramento Bee - By Melody Gutierrez - June 9, 2010

Tre'von Lyle will enter New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts in the fall. He has been named a winner of the coveted Gates Millennium Scholarship, which will pay for his entire education. Read more...

Sac High Boys Play, Win By Coaches' Rules On And Off Court
The Sacramento Bee - By Bill Paterson – March 19, 2010

Sacramento High School head coach Derek Swafford and his key assistant Earl Allen took over the boys program in the 2000-01 season. It was wracked by turmoil, "with no schedule, no uniforms, no money and no discipline," Swafford said. Since then, Swafford and Allen have engineered Sac High's metamorphosis into a perennial power. Read more...

Drive To Succeed Led Him To MIT; Hmong Refugee Achieves With Help of Teachers and Counselors

Sacramento Bee - By Pia Lopez - August 17, 2009

Doua Yang, born behind the barbed wire of a refugee camp in Thailand, has come a long way to achieve the American dream. He's another of Sacramento's Hmong success stories. Now beginning his sophomore year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is majoring in electrical engineering. He's currently the only Hmong student at this No. 1-ranked undergraduate engineering school in the country, where the first Hmong student graduated only the year before he arrived.... Read more...

Kids, Parents Pitch In As Oak Park Charter School Gets Results

The Sacramento Bee - By Deepa Ranganathan - November 27, 2005

In some ways, PS7, a 280-student school run by the nonprofit St. HOPE Public Schools, is an example of what charter schools do best: use their autonomy to place stricter demands on parents, teachers and students. The payoff: The school posted an impressive 99-point leap last year in its Academic Performance Index scores, a key state indicator of performance..... Read more...