The Sacramento City Unified School District has set a series of 11 community meetings at each of the school sites slated for closure next school year. Beginning next week, district officials and board members will visit each of the schools and talk to parents and community members about the closure proposal.
Trustees are scheduled to vote on the closures Feb. 21. Schools that receive a majority vote from the seven-member board will be closed after the school year ends.
Meetings will be held at 6 p.m. on the following days:
Wednesday, January 30: Tahoe Elementary School, 3110 60th St.
Monday, February 4: Bret Harte Elementary School, 2751 9th Ave.
Monday, February 4: C.B. Wire Elementary School, 5100 El Paraiso Ave.
Tuesday, February 5: James Marshall Elementary School, 9525 Goethe Road
Tuesday, February 5: Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, 7864 Detroit Blvd.
Wednesday, February 6: Mark Hopkins Elementary School, 2221 Matson Drive
Wednesday, February 6: Fruit Ridge Elementary School, 4625 44th St.
Wednesday, February 13: Washington Elementary School, 520 18th St.
Wednesday, February 13: Maple Elementary School,3301 37th Ave.
Tuesday, February 19: C.P. Huntington Elementary School, 5921 26th St.
Tuesday, February 19: Joseph Bonnheim Elementary School, 7300 Marin Ave.
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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