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Volunteers spruce up Twin Rivers District schools

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By Gina Kim
gkim@sacbee.com

Published: Sunday, Jul. 25, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 3B

Rolled-up sleeves, dirtied work gloves and laborious sweat overtook the recent preoccupations of school closures, teacher layoffs and budget struggles at the Twin Rivers Unified School District on Saturday.

About 300 volunteers – most affiliated with a local AmeriCorps program – spent the morning weeding, cleaning, pruning and painting at 10 school sites and one highway overpass, demonstrating that volunteerism and community pride don't

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300 volunteers tackle weeds, graffiti at Twin Rivers schools

By Gina Kim - Published: 2:27 pm

About 300 volunteers - most affiliated with a local AmeriCorps program - spent Saturday morning weeding, cleaning, pruning and painting at 10 school sites in the Twin Rivers Unified School District.

California school boards group exec retires amid credit-card, pay revelations

By Melody Gutierrez and Laurel Rosenhall - Published: Saturday, July 24 2010 - 12:00 am

It was a fall from grace for a man who has championed public schools across the state.

U-CAN helps kids in county schools go to college

By Diana Lambert - Published: Saturday, July 24 2010 - 12:00 am

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American River College, students to meet on Russian language class cuts

By Stephen Magagnini - Published: Saturday, July 24 2010 - 12:00 am

American River College administrators will meet with concerned students to discuss the school's decision to eliminate Russian language classes because of budget cuts.

Sacramento special education school named in fraud lawsuit

By Melody Gutierrez - Published: Saturday, July 24 2010 - 12:00 am

Universal Health Services, the owner of a Sacramento special education school, has been named in a fraud lawsuit under the California False Claims Act.

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