Hiram Johnson High School’s Law Academy student program transforms teenagers, according an assistant principal at the school.
The academy, created for low income, at-risk students, teaches students about law enforcement and the legal field through a collaboration with the Sacramento Police Department. The participants envision big goals and learn how to lead, said assistant principal Brianna Wells.
But the city of Sacramento proposed hobbling the Police Department’s Magnet Academy, under which the Law Academy operates in a number of the city’s high schools, after to help resolve a $66.2 million budget deficit. Six police officers could be laid off under the proposal, according to a budget “reduction strategies” document released last week…