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San Juan High building projects to add shine to career academies

The oldest high school in San Juan Unified is about to get physically spiffed up and academically overhauled. The district breaks ground today on four new construction projects, part of a plan to transform San Juan High School in Citrus Heights into a ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  27 Mar 2009

Public's help sought in solving reported sex assaults at Cordova High

In recent months, two teenage girls reported that they were assaulted in separate incidents on the Cordova High School campus. The first reported attack took place Dec. 11, the second Jan. 23. Having exhausted initial leads, the Sacramento County ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  26 Mar 2009

Carmichael's Jesuit High chooses its first lay principal

For the first time in its 56-year history, Jesuit High School has hired a layperson as its principal. The all-boys school in Carmichael announced Friday that Brianna Latko, 37, will succeed the outgoing principal, the Rev. Edward Fassett, on July ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  21 Mar 2009

Natomas school district puts peanut butter back on the menu

The little legume that could, born in Peru centuries ago, is making a heralded return to the lunch menu of the Natomas Unified School District. Yes, the peanut and more significantly, peanut butter is back. Natomas Unified removed all peanut products ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  20 Mar 2009

San Juan district reviews school boundaries

Over the years, as the San Juan Unified School District closed schools and enrolled children from new neighborhoods at others, some school boundaries came to look like odd puzzle pieces. Rio Americano High School draws students from an area along the ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: John Holt

Teachers, students brace for San Juan school district cuts

German teacher Inga Templeton writes student answers on the board during an advanced language class Wednesday. San Juan Unified is phasing out German at Mira Loma because of dwindling interest, but students have organized against the cut. By the end ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  12 Mar 2009

Students protest district move to cut German at Mira Loma

German teacher Inga Templeton writes student answers on the board during an advanced language class Wednesday. San Juan Unified is phasing out German at Mira Loma because of dwindling interest, but students have organized against the cut. Monika ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  12 Mar 2009

San Juan may close school for teen parents

A program for teen mothers and fathers and pregnant girls faces elimination at Sierra Nueva Continuation School, where all staff members will receive layoff notices. At class Wednesday are, foreground, Sandra Ortiz, 15, with Brian Machuca, 9 months. In ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  12 Mar 2009

Teens still missing after river search

They stood on the banks of the Feather River on Friday and kept a somber vigil, their second day of waiting for an end to heartbreaking uncertainty. That relief never came. Family and friends of three Sacramento-area teens missing since Wednesday went ...

From KIM MINUGH AND MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  7 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Mitsubishi,  David Samson

Elk Grove schools place cap on open enrollment transfers

Elk Grove Unified School District trustees voted unanimously Tuesday night to place a five percent cap on the number of students who can transfer from one school to another through open enrollment. The board agreed to the cap in order to protect two ...

From MELISSA NIX, Sacramento Bee,  4 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Edward Harris

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