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At Solano Avenue Elementary School, things are done right. Parents chip in, teachers stick around for years, children learn, and the surrounding community claims it for their own. The campus is a thing of pride-no graffiti or trash problems here.
It's a story you don't often hear about a public school, but at Solano, despite its tiny size and the poverty surrounding it, those facts earned it a place among the 221 schools honored recently as a 1995 California Distinguished School.
The statewide award acknowledges "successful teaching and learning, and exceptionally strong parent and community involvement."
"We have a lot of parental support, we have a very strong staff, a wonderful administrator and we have families that have been in the community for generations," said Diane Jebejian, a sixth-grade teacher who has taught at the...