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12/22/06 - Golden Empire students receive visit from fire truck riding Santa  Jolly Old St. Nick will make an early appearance at Golden Empire Elementary School at 10:30 a.m. today. Instead of driving his reindeer-propelled sleigh, Santa Claus will pull up in a vintage fire engine thanks to the efforts of the Sacramento Metro Fire Department
 

12/06/06 - New board officers take helm in city school system; new and re-elected members take oath at meeting. Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education members elected their new officers at the annual organization meeting Thursday evening and swore in new board member Ellyne Bell and re-elected members Roy Grimes and Jerry Houseman.

11/1/06 School violence prevention strategies subject of meeting - Sacramento City Unified School District’s Board of Education will conduct a board workshop to review practices and procedures in place to ensure safe schools on Thursday, Nov. 2 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Serna Center community rooms located at 5735 47^th Ave.
 

10/31/06 - Joint press Release with Sacramento City Police Department and Sacramento City School District - New Attendance Center Opened The Sacramento Police Department and the Sacramento City Unified School District, in partnership with the Sacramento County Probation Department, the Department of Human Assistance, and several faith-based and community-based organizations, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, November 1, 2006, at 10:00 a.m., in the Luther Burbank High School Library (3500 Florin Road) to announce the opening of a new attendance center on that campus.
 

11/2/06 N.Y. teacher, Harvard intern brings passion for education to Sac City schools Large urban school district superintendents face an average tenure of 26 to 28 months, according to one education-focused foundation. So why would a bright, committed young educator enroll in Harvard University’s Urban Superintendents Program (USP)?
 

10/24/06 Burbank seniors to cast votes in statewide student mock election  Luther Burbank High School seniors will express their views on the 2006 election on Tuesday, Oct. 24 when about 400 students vote in a mock election conducted by Get Up—Stand Up—Vote, a partnership between the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters, The California Secretary of State, the League of Women Voters and the LegiSchool Project at California State University, Sacramento.
 

10/18/06 Sac City pays for all sophomores to take pre-college exam to create ‘college going culture All 3,594 Sacramento City Unified School District 10^th graders will join other sophomores across the nation in taking a pre-college entrance exam known as the PSAT on Wednesday, Oct. 18. These students will become eligible for early college entrance programs and resources for the duration of their high school career.
 

10/13/06 STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON CONSTITUTION DISPLAYED AT STATE CAPITOL
M E D I A   A D V I S O R Y                                   
Contact: Lisa Cleri Reale
5,000 K-12 students from 36 California school districts submitted art and writing to explain what they think is most important about the U.S. Constitution
 

10/12/06 Luther Burbank High School keeps the Lights on Afterschool for students  Sacramento City Unified School District will celebrate the seventh annual Lights on Afterschool, a nationwide rally that supports after school programs and services, on Thursday, Oct. 12 with an Open House at Luther Burbank High School.
 

10/6/06 Maxine Hong Kingston discusses California literature with city high school students at Serna Center.  Author Maxine Hong Kingston will speak to approximately 100 Sacramento City Unified School District high school students on Friday, Oct. 6 at 10 a.m. in the district’s Serna Center community rooms located at 5735 47^th Ave.
 

9/14/06 - Seventh annual college fair offers students admissions, scholarships, information. Nearly 800 Sac City students will have the opportunity to receive on-the-spot admissions, scholarships and college admissions advice at the Seventh Annual Historically Black College Recruitment Fair, sponsored by the Sacramento City Unified School District and The United College Action Network.The fair begins at 8:45 a.m. at Hiram Johnson High School, 6879 14^th Ave.
 

9/1/06 SACRAMENTO POLICE DEPARTMENT WELCOMES CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL AT EDWARD KEMBLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, September 5, 2006 Officers from Sacramento Police Department will be on hand early Tuesday morning to welcome children back to school.  Officers will take this time to remind children and their parents the importance of staying safe while walking, riding bicycles, and driving to school..
 

8/23/06 Workability program thanks business partners for summer job opportunities The Sacramento City Unified School District’s Workability Program would like to thank the following 53 partners for their support of special needs students.  These partners have offered paid summer employment opportunities, which have allowed students to gain needed job skills and workplace experience.
 

8/14/06 Sac City seniors who recently passed exit exam graduate in special ceremony Class of 2006 students notified they passed the California High School Exit Exam (CASHEE) over the summer and seniors completing course requirements for graduation since June will graduate at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 14 in a special summer ceremony at the Charles A. Jones Skills Center. Reporters are invited to the ceremony and rehearsal at 10:40 a.m. The Skills Center is located at 5451 Lemon Hill Ave.
 

7/27/06 STATE SCHOOLS CHIEF JACK O’CONNELL AWARDS TOBACCO-USE PREVENTION GRANTS - State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell today announced he is awarding $9.98 million in Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) funds to 42 local education agencies serving grades nine through twelve throughout California. The list of grantees is attached.
 

6/30/06 Neighbors asked to watch over school sites during July 4 holiday  The July 4 holiday brings plenty of food, fireworks and fun. But for schools sites in the Sacramento City Unified School District, the holiday is one of caution and concern. The patriotic holiday is often marred by acts of vandalism at local schools, which cost the district between $10,000 and $15,000 in cleanup and repair.
In order to cut down on the amount of vandalism and...
 

6/22/06 National beauty pageant winner visits students at local elementary school. National beauty pageant queen Kim Foss-Erickson will read some of her favorite stories to second graders at William Land Elementary School on Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 10 a.m. The school is located at 2120 12th St.
 

6/19/06 School staff undertakes door-to-door effort to keep campuses safe over summer vacation. The principal and staff of John Bidwell Elementary School will join district security officers and John F. Kennedy High School police cadets in an effort to keep their campuses free from costly vandalism with a door-to-door canvass of the surrounding neighborhood.
 

5/25/06 High school presents insurance research to 30 regional health care professionals. Health care professionals will face 150 freshmen from Health Professions High School today at 1:30 p.m. to learn what research the teens gathered after approximately two months of delving into the impact of high risk behavior and the health insurance industry.
 

5/11/06 Schools gain Academic honors; five receive Title I award  Five Sacramento City Unified School District campuses will receive the State Title I Academic Achievement Award, while several other sites have earned district honors for their performance as well.
California’s Department of Education announced recently that Sam Brannan, Albert Einstein, Camellia Basic, O.W. Erlewine and Sutterville. were named as 2005-06 Title I Academic Achievement Award winners.
 

5/11/06 Five Sac City schools among state’s Distinguished Five Sac City Unified schools—Camellia Basic, John Bidwell, John Cabrillo and Sutterville elementary schools and Genevieve Didion K-8 school—joined a record 377 California public elementary schools selected as 2006 California Distinguished Schools.
 

4/5/06 Students help replenish American River steelhead trout population.  Fifth graders from Golden Empire Elementary School will learn a lesson in environmental stewardship when they release 20 steelhead trout fry into the American River at Goethe Park on Wednesday, April 4 at 11:30 a.m.
 

4/5/06 Conference focuses on leadership, success for Latino middle, high school students. More than 700 Latino middle and high school students and their parents are expected to attend a conference sponsored by the Sacramento City Unified School District and the Latino Student Advisory Committee on Wednesday, April 5.
 

4/5/06 Harlem Wizards face high school staff in Hiram Johnson athletics fundraiser. The Harlem Wizards bring their trademark “Tricks, Hoops & Alley-Oops” to the Hiram Johnson High School gymnasium on Thursday to take on the staff in a basketball fundraiser for the campus’ athletic department.
 

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