Ja-Mez is about to graduate with his class at Stone Mountain High School – an event that seemed impossible just two years earlier. A childhood tragedy that left him angry and disaffected threatened to derail his life until he came under the wing of Darrell Smith, a caring, empathetic CIS site coordinator working in the school.
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Communities In Schools® (CIS®), the nation’s leading provider of integrated student supports, unveiled two groundbreaking philanthropic investments set to change the public education landscape, just in time for the new school year.
Read more of Communities In Schools Unveils Back-to-School Initiative in Nationwide Expansion to Support 130,000 More Students in Over 200 Schools Across the CountryIn this op-ed, President and CEO of Communities In Schools Rey Saldaña talks about how education leaders should take a proactive, systems approach to redesign how they plan to meet student needs.
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