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Friday, October 16, 2009

Squeezed capital-area school districts ponder campus closures - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee


Squeezed capital-area school districts ponder campus closures - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News Sacramento Bee:

"Sacramento City Unified School District officials have proposed closing six to eight schools over the next three years, though they have not yet made a proposal. The district closed four schools at the end of the last school year.

Natomas Unified School District officials plan to close an elementary school next year but have not identified which one.

District spokesman Heidi Van Zant said the closure would save the district $400,000.

'We want to have tremendous community input into this important decision,' she said.

Natomas Unified's enrollment dipped by 400 students, many of whom enrolled at a new charter school, Van Zant said."