Saturday, May 1, 2010

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

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

A proposal to spend more than $500,000 in public money on art exhibits for children is being condemned by some Sacramento leaders and child advocates, who consider the plan an outrage while life-and-death social services programs falter.
San Juan Unified School District will preserve class sizes at 23 students to one teacher in kindergarten through third grades for the next school year.
California will once again try to get federal education money through the so-called "Race to the Top" competition among states, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced this morning.
Mayors from across California met in Sacramento on Thursday to discuss strategies for addressing the state's high public school dropout rates.
The University of California's center in downtown Sacramento is reopening to students this summer after budget cuts prompted the university to suspend the program last fall.
Another Sacramento- region school has won the grand prize in an online voting competition.

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The donations allow West Campus High School student Kiki Vo, who was injured in a house fire and has lost both her parents, to commit to attending UC Berkeley.
School secretary Cindy Mangan received a tiara and sash from co-workers Wednesday after she was named a 2010 Classified School Employee of the Year by the California Department of Education.


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