Sacramento City Unified School District officials released the names of the 11 elementary schools being considered for closure.
The 11 schools are: Washington Elementary in midtown, Maple Elementary in south Sacramento, Collis P. Huntington Elementary in south Sacramento, Susan B. Anthony Elementary in Meadowview, Tahoe Elementary in Tahoe Park, Fruit Ridge Elementary in south Sacramento, James Marshall Elementary in Rosemont, Joseph Bonnheim Elementary in Colonial Village, Mark Hopkins Elementary in Meadowview, Bret Harte Elementary in Curtis Park and Clayton B. Wire Elementary in south Sacramento.
Interactive map: Proposed Sacramento elementary school closings
Sacramento City Unified trustees will meet Thursday to discuss the closures and are scheduled to vote on the issue Feb. 21.
The district estimates a savings of $10 million over four years by closing the 11 schools.
For more on this story, read Thursday's Sacramento Bee.
To ready today's coverage, which includes school board president Jeff Cuneo's reasoning for supporting the closures, click HERE.
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Loretta Kalb started her reporting career at The Sacramento Union, moved to KOVR-13 as a television reporter, editor and producer, headed to The Associated Press in San Francisco and eventually returned to Sacramento and joined The Sacramento Bee. Throughout her career, she has covered the state Legislature, courts, local government and, now, education. She is a Chico native and an Elk Grove resident.
Diana Lambert began her journalism career as a proofreader at the Lodi News-Sentinel. She is now a senior writer at The Sacramento Bee covering K-12 education and California State University, Sacramento. Previously she was The Bee’s Elk Grove bureau chief. Lambert was raised in a military family and lived at bases around the globe. She attended four high schools, graduating from Tokay High in Lodi and then Sacramento State University. She lives in Elk Grove.
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