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What’s Next for Maple Elementary?

Feb 22, 2013

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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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7 Schools Eliminated by Sacramento School Board

Feb 22, 2013

The Sacramento City Unified School Board voted to close 7 schools, Eric Rucker has the details of the divided and controversial vote.



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Sacramento City Unified Votes to Close Seven Elementary Schools

Feb 22, 2013
Sacramento City Unified Votes to Close Seven Elementary Schools

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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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Closed Schools Won’t Be Abandoned

Feb 21, 2013
Closed Schools Won’t Be Abandoned

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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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Mark Twain Elementary Protests Possible Closure

Feb 19, 2013
Mark Twain Elementary Protests Possible Closure

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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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Parents Say Possible School Closure About More than Under Enrollment

Feb 13, 2013
Parents Say Possible School Closure About More than Under Enrollment

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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 …


Sacramento Current
Check the District’s math, school closures don’t add up

Feb 13, 2013
Check the District’s math, school closures don’t add up

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

Sacramento Current
School closures: “Too many questions, too little time.”

School closures: “Too many questions, too little time.”

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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Parents Fear New Schools, In High Crime Areas

Jan 31, 2013
Parents Fear New Schools, In High Crime Areas

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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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Tahoe Elementary Parents Against Closure

Jan 30, 2013

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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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