Thursday, May 6, 2010

Education - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Education - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Poor air quality is on the horizon with summer approaching, prompting three Sacramento schools this year to fly flags alerting students to smog levels.
Math books replete with errors will be replaced at area school districts at the cost of publisher Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.
Students in the Davis Joint Unified School District will be assigned less homework in the fall if the school board adopts a new homework policy tonight.
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TURLOCK – Attorneys for California State University, Stanislaus, have found 899 pages of documents related to Sarah Palin's planned visit to the campus.
A Jesuit High School graduate who now goes to UCLA is receiving a prestigious award today for his work promoting literacy in poor communities.
The Sacramento Area Black Caucus will honor five high school and college students during its annual "Scholarship and Recognition Dinner" at 6 p.m. Saturday at Touch A' Class Restaurant, 4217 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento.
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On a snowy Saturday in December 1965, a group of students met in Des Moines, Iowa, to plan a protest against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
A high school civics program run by California State University, Sacramento, has received national recognition for promoting voter participation and civic engagement in winning the Medallion award from the National Association of Secretaries of State.


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