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Sac City teachers fight 'unilateral' changes to school calendar

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Sac City teachers fight 'unilateral' changes to school calendar

Published: Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 3B

With summer break ending in three weeks for the Sacramento City Unified School District, a squabble over the school calendar has teachers unclear about when they are supposed to return to campus.

Sacramento City Unified students are scheduled to begin classes Sept. 6, but there is a conflict over the start date for staff. A still-tentative calendar calls for teachers to return for faculty workdays on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, which is two days earlier than in previous years.

The revised calendar also converted some shortened school days to full days and made many of



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