After a one-year absence, the Central Valley Communities for Children AmeriCorps Program is back, with the largest membership in its history, providing the potential to tutor more in need students than ever. Pre-service training began on Sept. 1 at the Kern County Superintendent of Schools’ office in Bakersfield for 56 members ranging in age from 17 to 55. Following the nine-day training period, they begin nine months of tutoring students, seven-hours-a-day, at various school sites in Bakersfield, Delano, Lamont, Shafter and Taft on Sept. 15. More