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Sac City Unified Urges Student and Families to Watch for Warning Signs of Suicide September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Sacramento 鈥 As part of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Sacramento City Unified School District urges parents and students to seek mental health support during COVID-19 health pandemic. The district encourages students and parents to learn about signs of distress, and how to ask for help. This includes educating families on the intersection of suicide, mental health, and substance and alcohol abuse. 

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Sac City Unified Demands SCTA to Cease and Desist its Unlawful Effort to Block Students鈥 Access to the District鈥檚 Distance Learning Plan
Letter orders SCTA leadership to end attempts to create confusion for students and families preparing for distance learning

SACRAMENTO 鈥 Sacramento City Unified School District today sent a cease and desist letter to the Sacramento City Teachers Association calling on SCTA to cease its direction to its members to ignore the district鈥檚 distance learning plan and schedules. Sac City Unified students can little afford any disruption to their education, as 70 percent of students are low-income, foster youth, or English Learners. All students have been impacted by this health crisis, and require a high-quality distance learning program when school resumes.

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Sacramento City Unified Adopts Student-Centered Distance Learning Plan Despite Lack of Agreement with Teachers Union
Students to receive standards-based live instruction beginning Sept. 8

SACRAMENTO 鈥 The Sacramento City Unified School District today announced that 鈥 in order to meet the academic, social, and emotional success of all students 鈥 it would move forward and implement a full distance learning plan to begin on Sept. 8, without an agreement with the Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA). With this plan in place, students and families can receive a class schedule for distance learning, with high quality components including a focus on essential standards and live instruction. A distance learning schedule will begin on Sept.

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Sacramento City Unified Announces that Students will Begin Distance Learning on Sept. 3 as SCTA Declares Impasse
District expressed dismay over stall tactics, failing to meet the needs of our most vulnerable students; Negotiations to move to mediation as students begin school on September 3

SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento City Unified School District today announced that negotiations with the Sacramento City Teachers Association have ended as the union declared impasse. In lieu of a full agreement, students will begin distance learning on Sept. 3 and 4 with a temporary schedule including primarily asynchronous minutes. On September 1 and 2, SCTA members will receive paid professional development that will allow them to best meet the academic, social, and emotional success for all students.

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Sacramento City Unified Prevails in Fight to Protect Cost Savings for Students

SACRAMENTO -  Sacramento City Unified School District prevailed today in an arbitration with Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) over a 2017 contract dispute between the parties regarding the application of health care savings.    

The arbitrator鈥檚 decision agrees with the district and found that district did not violate the contract.

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Sac City Unified Releases Details about its Distance Learning Plan

SACRAMENTO 鈥 Sacramento City Unified School District released at its Board Meeting details on its full distance learning plan, after the announcement by the district - and others throughout the region 鈥 that its students would begin the year remotely. Sac City Unified begins its academic year on September 3 and is currently developing a six part 鈥淩eturn Together鈥 plan. The Board presentation can be viewed here.