Student-to-Librarian Ratio in California California ranks last in the country for its student-to-librarian ratio. The Department of Education says only 1 in 4 schools keep a full-time credentialed librarian, known as a teacher librarian, on staff. Most California public schools don't have teacher librarians. We'll talk to David Triche. teacher librarian in Sacramento about the John H. Still Middle School http://schools.scusd.edu/johnstill/ , School of Engineering & Sciences http://www.schoolofengineeringandsciences.org/ and Sam Brannan Middle School http://schools.scusd.edu/sambrannan/
Marcos Breton Sacramento Bee
columnist Marcos Breton joins us the first Wednesday
of each month; his columns appear each Wednesday and Sunday in the
Bee's Our Region Section.
Father Gregory Boyle Founder of
Homeboy Industries,
the largest gang intervention program in the country that brings
together rival gang members to work in harmony is being inducted
into the California Hall of Fame Thursday. Father Greg
Boyle is a Jesuit Priest who makes approximately two hundred
speaking engagements per year and has received numerous
humanitarian awards, among them the California Peace Prize. He is
the author of the critically acclaimed book,
"Tattoos on the Heart" which has been on the Los Angeles Times
Bestseller list for nineteen weeks and most recently garnered him a
Southern California Bookseller's Association nomination for best
nonfiction of 2010.
Thinning Forests A group of scientists
from UC Merced are proposing
to test the hypothesis that thinning the forests in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains may increase California's water supply. We'll speak
with Roger
Bales, the scientists leading the study.