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Sacramento city schools will keep extracurricular activities
- 06-01-2011
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By Melody Gutierrez/Sacramento Bee
Sacramento City Unified School District officials are scrambling to get the word out: Sports, choir, cheerleading, drama and other extracurricular activities are back on for next school year. The district initially cut $1.2 million from the programs to balance its "worst-case" budget in March, despite fears families would leave Sacramento City schools. The "worst-case" projections have not materialized, thanks to California's income tax revenue spike that has analysts now saying funding will remain flat for K-12 education in the 2011-2012 school year. "There is still a great deal of uncertainty," said Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jonathan Raymond. (more...)
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