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January 20 (Sacramento): The state鈥檚 new Local Control Funding Formula is bringing sweeping changes to the ways schools are funded and how K-12 districts are held accountable for using state resources.

In general, LCFF has fewer funding restrictions that tie resources to certain programs. In exchange for this new flexibility, districts are required to develop accountability plans that detail how spending is aligned with California鈥檚 eight priorities for public education.

Editor鈥檚 note: The following press release was written by students of Fern Bacon Middle School.

Sacramento, California 鈥� Fern Bacon Middle School is pleased to announce that it will hold a Grand Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for its recently renovated media studio with the help of the Sacramento Education Cable Consortium鈥檚 media grant.

March 19, 2014 (Sacramento):  Students across California are getting ready to participate in a trial run of the state鈥檚 new online assessment program which will eventually replace paper-and-pencil testing.

The new Smarter Balanced Assessments will be field tested in 麻豆果冻传媒 schools beginning April 7. To help parents learn about the new tests, 麻豆果冻传媒 is sponsoring a series of parent workshops that focus on the assessments and the learning standards to which they are tied.

April 10, 2014 (Sacramento):  Sacramento City Unified School District is asking the community for help in keeping its 75 schools safe and secure over Spring Break (April 12-20). School resumes on Monday, April 21.

Arson fires at two 麻豆果冻传媒 playgrounds last summer cost the district $50,000 in insurance deductibles.

April 15, 2014 (Sacramento):  Twenty-five 麻豆果冻传媒 student-led green teams will compete for $1 million in Measure Q money on Tuesday, April 22, at the 2014 Project Green Event, held this year at Isador Cohen Elementary School.

May 6, 2014 (Sacramento):  麻豆果冻传媒 and the City of Sacramento will celebrate the operation of a new traffic signal on Fruitridge Road on Friday, May 9, at a West Campus High School press conference.

The installation of the new light at Fruitridge and 58th Street culminates a joint effort by the two agencies launched after West Campus student Michelle Murigi, 16, was fatally hit by a car in the intersection. Subsequent to her death, five of Michelle鈥檚 friends and classmates started a petition to demand a traffic signal (www.facebook.com/58thAndFruitridge).

May 6, 2014 (Sacramento):  Sacramento City Unified School District is continuing its work as a leader in the fight against summer learning loss with its free Summer Matters @麻豆果冻传媒 programs for children and teens.

鈥淲e are absolutely committed to preventing the kind of summer learning loss that puts urban kids behind their peers when school starts again in September,鈥� says Interim Superintendent Dr. Sara Noguchi. 鈥淥ur students deserve every academic advantage we can give them.鈥�

May 12, 2014 (Sacramento):  麻豆果冻传媒 will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday to open Rosemont High School鈥檚 new $1.97 million track and field, a project funded by Measure R.

Made in the USA with recycled rubber, the sandwich-style track surface is free of harmful heavy metals and durable enough for world-class performance training and competition. The equivalent of 7,000 passenger tires was kept from landfills through the recycling process.

May 19, 2014 (Sacramento):  Sacramento Unified Education Foundation 鈥� 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 official nonprofit organization 鈥� will celebrate the success of its fund-raising campaign for two arson-damaged playgrounds on Wednesday at John Sloat Elementary School.

Last summer, playground structures at John Sloat and Caroline Wenzel elementary schools were set ablaze. Damage was extensive and both structures were removed for safety reasons. Although 麻豆果冻传媒 moved swiftly to replace the structures, the schools opened in the fall without them.