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May 16, 2012 (Sacramento):  Eight hundred students from five Sacramento City Unified School District elementary schools that participate in the Carnegie Hall Link UP program will perform on Thursday (May 17) at  Capital Christian Center.

Carnegie Hall鈥檚 Weill Music Institute, in partnership with the Sacramento Philharmonic and the Vocal and Instrumental Teaching Artists Academy, brings music instruction to students at William Land, Sutterville, Elder Creek, Abraham Lincoln and Maple schools.

Students will demonstrate what they鈥檝e learned in a concert.

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May 17, 2012 (Sacramento):  Student artists from Sacramento City Unified School District will pound drums, breakdance, sing and perform original theater pieces at the 25th annual Very Special Festival of the Arts on Friday (May 18).

The one-day event is sponsored by I Can Do THAT!/Very Special Arts, the only program in Sacramento County that provides instruction in the arts to students with and without disabilities together through artists-in-residence at schools.

May 17, 2012 (Sacramento):  Forget Facebook, text messages and Twitter.

May 23, 2012 (Sacramento):  State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson will appear at Kit Carson Middle School鈥檚 Annual Career Day on Friday (May 25) after a 14-year-old 4.0 GPA student, who emigrated with her mother from Costa Rica in 2008, asked California鈥檚 schools chief to attend.

Rebeca Corrales wrote Torlakson a letter in which she credited Kit Carson Principal Charlie Watters and the school鈥檚 teachers and staff for helping her and asked California鈥檚 top educator to attend Friday鈥檚 event.

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May 30, 2012 (Sacramento):  Despite deep state funding cuts that have forced the near elimination of traditional summer school, Sacramento City Unified School District is expanding its innovative 鈥淪ummer of Service鈥� program for teens.

鈥淪ummer of Service鈥� combines community service and project-based learning with a traditional 鈥渂ridge鈥� program aimed at easing the sometimes scary transition to middle and high school. Last year, about 800 麻豆果冻传媒 kids participated in the program.

June 5, 2012 (Sacramento):  Fourteen student 鈥済reen teams鈥� from the Sacramento City Unified School District will learn on Thursday how much money they are getting to see their dreams of greener campuses come true.

麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 first-ever Project Green Allocation Awards will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday (June 7) at Rosemont High School, 9594 Kiefer Blvd.

June 7, 2012 (Sacramento):  Since its opening in 1954, Freeport Elementary School has prepared generations of South Sacramento children for success in school and life.

As the neighborhood aged and children grew up and moved away, however, the school struggled to keep up its enrollment.

November 7, 2012 (Sacramento):  Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond issued the following statement today on the passage of Proposition 30 and local Measures Q and R:

鈥淎ll of us at Sac City Unified and across the state are breathing a little easier today knowing that the citizens of California value public education and are willing to invest in our children鈥檚 futures through voter approval of Proposition 30.

鈥淲e are also heartened by our local community鈥檚 support for Measures Q and R.

WHAT:                                 Sacramento City Unified School District鈥檚 2012 ranking on the state鈥檚 Academic Performance Index (API) will be revealed at a press conference on Thursday (October 11).