Thumbs up to United Way for convening a successful America's Promise Graduation Summit Oct. 10 -- attended by students, parents, business reps, government, education, community organizations -- to raise awareness about the dropout problem in Fresno County, increase understanding of resources available to combat this problem, get community stakeholders to commit to address the issue, and develop a task force to implement a community action plan. Co-sponsors were AT&T, Fresno Compact, State Center Consortium, the League of Women Voters of Fresno, Heald College and Union Bank.
Thumbs down to hundreds of California Department of Motor Vehicle workers who skipped work on Columbus Day to protest the loss of the paid holiday. Nine offices were forced to close for at least part of the holiday, and services at 17 others were reduced. Leaders of the largest state employees union, Service Employees International Union Local 1000, had urged its members to skip work as part of an ongoing contract dispute with the Schwarzenegger administration.With statewide unemployment at 12%, the public is unlikely to be sympathetic to state workers who thumbed their nose at the requirement to work.
Thumbs up to McLane High School, which received a $2,500 check for winning the "Got Milk?" breakfast challenge, aimed at improving students' ability to learn by ensuring they get adequate nutrition from that important first meal of the day. Students won the three-week competition by increasing breakfast consumption at the school by 65% compared to last year.
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