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The Â鶹ÊÓƵ City Unified School District Board of Education voted 5-2 this evening to appoint former teacher and principal Sara Noguchi, Ed.D., as interim superintendent and to begin the process of finding a permanent replacement for outgoing Superintendent Jonathan Raymond.

Superintendent Raymond announced last month that he will be leaving his post as of December 31 to return to his native Boston, where he plans to spend more time with his immediate and extended family.

December 17, 2013 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ):  Emergency  department  personnel from Kaiser Permanente’s South Â鶹ÊÓƵ Medical Center will deliver 134 wrapped holiday presents to students at Susan B. Anthony Elementary School between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Friday (December 20).

January 20 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): The state’s 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’s eight priorities for public education.

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

Â鶹ÊÓƵ, California – 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Education Cable Consortium’s media grant.

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

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

April 10, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ):  Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 SCUSD playgrounds last summer cost the district $50,000 in insurance deductibles.

April 15, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ):  Twenty-five SCUSD 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 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ):  SCUSD and the City of Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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’s friends and classmates started a petition to demand a traffic signal (www.facebook.com/58thAndFruitridge).

May 12, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ):  SCUSD will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday to open Rosemont High School’s 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.