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Â鶹¹ú²úAV Begins News Era with One-Stop Enrollment Center
New center replaces school site enrollment, gives parents equal shot at school choice
For decades, parents in Sacramento have trudged through a familiar scene: a few weeks or days before school starts, they head to their school of choice, records in hand, and hope to get their children enrolled – sometimes against stiff competition for space.
Parents with children in several different schools had to trek all over the city to enroll students at multiple campuses. Even more confusing, the enrollment procedures could differ between schools. And parents who didn’t speak English well could have an especially difficult time getting children enrolled.
Teen Triumphs: Â鶹¹ú²úAV Grads Have Amazing Stories
Beginning tomorrow (Thursday, June 9), thousands of Sacramento City Unified School District seniors will don caps and gowns for joyful – and sometimes tearful – graduation ceremonies.
Many of the young men and women who will be crossing stages throughout the city have heartwarming stories of struggle and triumph, as they fought such obstacles as poverty, loss of family members, peer pressure and language barriers to make it to their graduation day.
No Shot, No School?
Thousands of students may be barred next fall; Â鶹¹ú²úAV free vaccination clinic TODAY
Â鶹¹ú²úAV (Â鶹¹ú²úAV) is holding a free immunization clinic from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on today (June 7) at C.K. McClatchy High School to help parents comply with a daunting new state law affecting thousands of local families.
The new law states that students entering seventh through 12th grades cannot attend school in the fall until their parents turn in shot records showing that they have been vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough).
Â鶹¹ú²úAV Launches Survey on Need for New Neighborhood High School
East Sacramento, Midtown and Oak Park do not have a traditional neighborhood high school to serve their children, and the Â鶹¹ú²úAV is asking community members to take part in an important survey to help deal with the issue.
The online survey is available for community members, including teachers, staff, students and parents, to participate in at the district website.
Â鶹¹ú²úAV Launches McClatchy’s New Law Academy with VIP Event
A ‘pipeline to professions,’ the academy will target under-served teens with a rigorous curriculum focused on law
On Friday, a new chapter begins in C.K. McClatchy High School’s
rich 74-year history with the launch of a new Law and Public
Policy Academy.
Legal community VIPs will address freshmen students about careers
in law and public policy at a launch celebration on Friday in the
McClatchy library. U.S. District Court Judge Morrison England,
State Bar Association President Mike Levy and Sacramento City
Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond are among
the confirmed speakers.
Â鶹¹ú²úAV Trustees to take up High School Sports Funding Tonight
Sacramento students may be back on baseball diamonds and football fields this fall, thanks to an uptick in state revenues and Â鶹¹ú²úAV’s new fundraising partnership with the River Cats.
No Shot, No School?
Thousands of students may be barred next fall; Â鶹¹ú²úAV schedules free clinic for Friday
Â鶹¹ú²úAV (Â鶹¹ú²úAV) is holding a free immunization clinic from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday (June 3) at John F. Kennedy High School to help parents comply with a daunting new state law affecting thousands of local families.
The new law states that students entering seventh through 12th grades cannot attend school in the fall until their parents turn in shot records showing that they have been vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough).
Â鶹¹ú²úAV and River Cats Team Up to Help Fund Sports in City Schools
Local team steps up to the plate for student athletes.
School athletics programs threatened by the statewide budget crisis will be saved in part by a new partnership between the Â鶹¹ú²úAV and the Sacramento River Cats that will raise money for the financially strapped programs.
The new partnership will be launched with an on-field pre-game ceremony on Wednesday, June 1 at Raley Field (prior to the start of the team’s 12:05 game against the Salt Lake Bees). The school district and the River Cats will announce they are teaming up to provide resources to district sports programs.
Neighbors asked to help protect schools over Memorial Day
Memorial Day may mark the official start of backyard barbecue
season, but for school districts, the holiday weekend can be
anything but relaxing as vandals, thieves and arsonists take
advantage of empty campuses.
In light of this, Â鶹¹ú²úAV is asking the community for help in
keeping schools safe and secure over the three-day break (May
28-30).
Teens Take on Cafeteria Food
Burbank High’s ‘Health Squad’ to work side-by-side with school district chef on kid-friendly menu choices
Teenage rites of passage: Football games, the prom, yearbook autograph sessions and … complaining about cafeteria food. Whether the food is unhealthy (think pizza and burgers) or too healthy (salad), kids never seem satisfied with whatever it is on their lunch trays.