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At Maple Elementary Friday, it seemed like a normal day, but behind the pencils and smiles there was sadness.

“I am sad because I will have to make new friends if the other kids don’t go to the same …

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After a long and intense meeting that started Thursday evening and stretched into early Friday morning, the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to close seven elementary schools.

Washington, C.P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, C.B. Wire, Fruit …

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The Sacramento City Unified School District say schools that are closed will not be abandoned vandal magnates.

The district is deciding to close as many as 11 schools that are underused. But besides parents wanting to retain neighborhood schools …

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Students, teachers and parents protested outside of the Mark Twain Elementary School Tuesday morning in hopes of stopping a possible closure of the school.

Mark Twain was not originally on the list of 11 different under enrolled schools …

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Maple Elementary, a school where Latino children are the majority is one of the 11 schools slated to close.

During a meeting with the Sacramento City Unified School District, parents and students protested while the district said they are …

Parents and neighbors are feeling pretty ambushed by the Sac City school district’s decision to “right-size” 20 percent of its elementary schools out of existence. The premise is that these 11 schools are “severely under-enrolled,” inefficient money losers, and that the … Continue reading →

Note: This is a somewhat longer version of a column that will appear tomorrow in the Sacramento News and Review.  The more you peel back the layers of the Sac City school district’s brutal “right-sizing” plan, the weirder it gets. … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of parents gathered at the Samuel Pannell Community Center on Meadowview Rd. banning together, hoping to create ideas to stop 11 elementary schools from closing.

Parents are worried about their kids safety, fearing their children may have to …

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Every Sacramento school child has to master addition, but now district dialogue is all focused on subtraction – the loss of students forcing closure plans for 11 elementary schools.

Parents and students at Tahoe Elementary school – the first …

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The Sacramento City Unified School District officials say they’re considering closing 11 elementary schools.

Bret Harte Elementary, C. P. Huntington Elementary, Fruit Ridge Elementary, James Marshall Elementary, Joseph Bonheim Elementary, C. B. Wire Elementary, Mark Hopkins Elementary, Tahoe Elementary, …