Sacramento County Local News: Education


All Local Education News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

Image caption: California's sprawling public education system encompasses approximately 10,500 schools.
California’s Education System: How the Bureaucracy Works

How California's extensive public school system is organized and managed, explained.

Image caption: California's library system dates back 171 years.
How Cool Are Libraries?

California has gone from one library to more than 1,100 in the last 171 years.

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09/11/2024
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Sacramento City College received a painted array of vibrant colors on the Fischbacher Fine Arts Building during the month of May thanks to art students in a mural class, and from the continued advocacy of its professor.

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09/11/2024
California’s public schools have a numbers problem —and it’s not just that their students don’t score very highly in national tests of mathematics ability.

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09/06/2024
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“Hands-on” best describes the Beginning Farmer Training Program at the Center for Land-Based Learning in Woodland.

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09/05/2024
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SMUD has partnered with the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience to offer students from Sacramento the opportunity to explore the region's largest science museum, the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC), through a special field trip program.

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09/05/2024
Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

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09/04/2024
Information about how the state’s K-12 students are performing is located on several sites and is difficult to understand, a new report finds.

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09/04/2024
The California School Dashboard makes it hard for the public to see how schools and districts are performing over multiple years, concludes the report's lead author.

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08/29/2024
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Congressman Kevin Kiley presented the Folsom Public Library with a huge honor Tuesday. Kiley recognized the city library for earning the distinction as the top library in California’s 3rd Congressional District.

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08/29/2024
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Security at two Folsom Schools has been increased as the Folsom Police Department continues to investigate and work with the Folsom Cordova Unified School District after a series of social media posts by a parent have raised concerns of parents.

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08/29/2024
A look at the training program for beginner farmers offered by the Center for Land-Based Learning in Woodland.

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08/29/2024
Sactown sits down for a Q&A with Sacramento State President Luke Wood.

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08/28/2024
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There are more public libraries in the U.S. than McDonald’s restaurants: 17,278 libraries to about 14,000 stores of the fast food chain. California alone boasts 1,127 libraries, with its capital city hosting 28 branches. Libraries continue to serve up a full menu of accessible information and knowledge.

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08/25/2024
In the final week of session, legislators are debating whether to give more leeway to public school teachers when to report students to law enforcement. Supporters say disabled and students of color are unfairly disciplined, but opponents say school safety is at risk.

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08/23/2024
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YeduKondalu “YK” Chalamcherla has announced his candidacy for the Folsom Cordova Unified School District Board of Education, representing Trustee Area 2, in the upcoming November 2024 election.

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08/22/2024
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As the new school year begins, the Folsom Cordova Unified School District announced it is hiring with 28 open staff positions this week.

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08/22/2024
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The program allows students from transitional kindergarten through 12th grade to use the entire SacRT transit network, which includes SacRT buses, light rail and SmaRT Ride on-demand microtransit service, for free.

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08/22/2024
In their August 20 meeting, Sacramento County Supervisors approved $1.75 million in funding over 5 years for the Sacramento Regional Transit RydeFreeRT program.

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08/21/2024
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The Folsom Cordova Unified School District (FCUSD) is taking a significant step toward inclusivity with the introduction of real-time translation devices across all schools in the District.

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08/21/2024
August 20 marked the first day of of the first school year for new Northlake TK-8 in Natomas.

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08/20/2024
California officials have warned students for years that for-profit schools may make misleading career claims — leaving them with “a mountain of debt” but no job. Still, many for-profit schools remain on the state’s list of recommended job training programs.
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