CA State Superintendent recognizes Central Unified's Pathway Community Day School

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the archetypal time, the California State Superintendent is recognizing Community Day Schools.

Several Central California locations were recognized, including Pathway Community Day School.

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The Central Unified field is location to students who are nether expulsion oregon person utmost attendance issues.

"It's a tiny population, the classrooms are precise small," Pathway Principal Jill Young said.

Young says erstwhile students travel here, they are known by name.

Teachers, counselors, mentors and a behaviour involution specializer each personalize their acquisition to marque definite the students are successful.

That includes the student's social-emotional needs.

"Generally, erstwhile students are struggling astatine school, the social-emotional portion is what's interfering," Young said.

Raquel Campos' lad is simply a inferior astatine Pathway.

He was dealing with an expulsion and initially, Campos was not anxious to person her lad attend.

"I was wholly against it. I was like, 'No, my lad is excessively bully for it.'" Campos said.

But she got to cognize the unit and decided to let her lad to springiness it a try.

"I extremity up falling for the full school. I was conscionable similar 'You cognize what? They're for these kids.' I spot that versus different schools that my lad has attended," Campos said.

It was Pathway's dedication to their students and enactment with parents that was precocious acknowledged.

For the archetypal time, State Superintendent Tony Thurmond designated Model Community Day Schools passim the state.

Pathway was 1 of them.

A connection said successful part, "The inclusive attack to schoolhouse governance fosters a consciousness of assemblage and shared work for pupil success."

"That was precise exciting," Young said.

The designation was made authoritative arsenic unit hung the plaque connected the partition successful the school's office.

Principal Young says they volition proceed to absorption connected pupil accomplishment and bash immoderate they tin to support students connected the close path.

"Our occupation is to get them backmost to a regular broad setting," Young said.

Since their designation, schools from crossed Central California and the authorities person been reaching retired to Pathway to find retired what they bash that makes them truthful palmy truthful they tin instrumentality them astatine their ain schools.

Other Central Valley schools recognized included Lindsay Community Day School and Sanger Community Day School.

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