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Advisory council urges Sac City district improve schools' bathroom quality and safety  

Advisory council urges Sac City district improve schools’ bathroom quality and safety  

Jordan Pitts, John F. Kennedy High School September 4, 2024

The Sac City Unified Board of Education was presented with a resolution submitted by Vanessa Reyes and the Student Advisory Council earlier this summer urging the district improve the conditions of school...

The inaugural Consumnes Oaks girls flag football team, fall 2024.

CIF approves girls flag football, Cosumnes Oaks High welcomes the opportunity

Sarah Gray, Cosumnes Oaks High School September 4, 2024

In a groundbreaking development for local high school sports, Elk Grove Unified School District announced that high schools in the district will have to offer a new sport, girls flag football.  Title...

Horizon Charter enhances curriculum with art instruction

Horizon Charter enhances curriculum with art instruction

Leilani Barker, Horizon Charter School September 3, 2024

Horizon charter school is making advancements in their art program and hiring their first high school art teacher – April Barker – for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year.   Barker was hired in...

Sacramento high school students, social justice leaders and adults gathered at the Valley Hi-North Laguna Library in July to participate in the “Abolition and Me: Stonewall’s Legacy” workshop.

Teen-led organization advocates for prison reform at socio-political education workshop 

Charynna Torres Calderon, Rania Elguessab, Consumnes Oaks High School September 3, 2024

By Rania Elguessab and Charynna Torres-Calderon Pe Benito Sacramento high school students, social justice leaders and curious adults gathered at the Valley Hi-North Laguna Library in late July to participate...

Big changes to suspension rules in California schools arrive this fall.

Senate Bill 274 erases ‘willful defiance’ suspensions from public high schools

Adam Abolfazli, Rio Americano High School September 3, 2024

A recent wave of school suspension reforms in California public schools is expanding this year – and more may be on the way. California Senate Bill 274, which went into effect in July, builds on previous...

Teachers struggle managing student online activity, Classwize seen as the solution

Teachers struggle managing student online activity, Classwize seen as the solution

Kate Hwang St Francis High, Stephanie Olvido St Francis High September 1, 2024
Software takes over classroom management procedures

A view of Inderkum High’s only Summer Art class.

Determined Inderkum students squeeze in art component during summer session

Benjamin Lopez, Inderkum High School June 30, 2024

This summer, students are fulfilling their Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) requirements via an Art 1 class taking up one of the two rooms normally dedicated to the subject.  Inderkum sophomore and...

The Minga app interface.

Inderkum adopts Minga app to serve as hall pass, digital ID system

Benjamin Lopez, Inderkum High School June 29, 2024

This year physical hall passes were retired in the Math and Science wings at Inderkum High School and replaced with the Minga.io app, which students could download on their phone or use via their chromebooks.  “I’m...

San Juan Unified expands summer food distribution effort, partners with Sacramento Food Bank

San Juan Unified expands summer food distribution effort, partners with Sacramento Food Bank

Rishi Upadhyay, Mira Loma High School June 29, 2024

This summer, the San Juan Unified School District continues to not only offer free meals for students during the summer but also has expanded its efforts through a new partnership. The main food distribution...

Peer Support and Mentoring Club helps Cosumnes Oaks counselors host Mental Health Awareness Month booths

Peer Support and Mentoring Club helps Cosumnes Oaks counselors host Mental Health Awareness Month booths

Charynna Torres Calderon PeBenito, Consumnes Oaks High School June 26, 2024

Every May is mental health awareness month: a time to spotlight taking care of oneself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Mental Health Month’s role in destigmatizing conversations around mental...

Image from the show put on by Inderkum’s Mandarin Class) at the district Multicultural Festival.

Inderkum hosts first district-wide Multicultural Festival on campus

Benjamin Lopez, Inderkum High School June 25, 2024

The Natomas Unified School District held its first-ever Multicultural Festival this year at Inderkum High School, and the event drew a crowd of more than 1,500 people, district officials said. “It...

Mira Loma travels back in time through annual Pleasantville event

Mira Loma travels back in time through annual Pleasantville event

Rishi Upadhyay, Mira Loma High School June 25, 2024

Cars, music, and milkshakes. The 1950s came to life at Mira Loma High School’s annual Pleasantville event, a culmination of students’ hard work and faculty leadership. Michael Bender, a Mira...

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