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Sac City Unified School District Opens Learning Hubs at Six School Sites
City of Sacramento and community based organizations support small student learning groups
SACRAMENTO 鈥� The Sacramento City Unified School District announced that six learning hubs have opened at school sites throughout the district. These hubs, organized in partnership with community-based organizations and the City of Sacramento, provide small groups of students with distance learning assistance and other activities. Each learning hub is open to 40 students. Students given priority to participate in the learning hubs are children of essential workers, students with special needs, foster youth, and students experiencing homelessness.
Sac City Unified Celebrates Record High FAFSA Completion Rate; Teams Up With California Student Aid Commission To Kick Off 2020-21 FAFSA Application Period
SACRAMENTO 鈥� Sacramento City Unified School District today announced that record numbers of its students had completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) last school year.
鈥淲e want every Sac City Unified student to graduate college and career ready, and to have the widest array of options when they graduate,鈥� said Superintendent Jorge Aguilar. 鈥淐ompleting the FAFSA expands students鈥� access to college. This school year we hope to break our record again when all Sac City Unified seniors complete the FAFSA.鈥�
Sacramento City Unified鈥檚 Phoebe Hearst Elementary Named as 2020 National Blue Ribbon School
SACRAMENTO 鈥� Sacramento City Unified School District鈥檚 Phoebe Hearst Elementary was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a for 2020. The recognition is based on the school鈥檚 overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups.
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.
Sac City Unified Outlines Efforts to Engage Students, Recognizes Attendance Awareness Month
Sacramento 鈥� Every year, the Sacramento City Unified School District recognizes September as Attendance Awareness Month. Good attendance and engagement is even more essential to student achievement and graduation because of the lost opportunities to learning that have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sac City Unified Serves More than 3 Million Meals Since School Closures in March
District Credits Work of Nutrition Services staff and Community Partnerships with success
SACRAMENTO 鈥� The Sacramento City Unified School District Nutrition Services Department has served nearly 3.2 million meals since school campuses were closed in March. The district continues to serve meals at 44 sites Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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.
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.
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.
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.