FAIRFIELD — Nearly 70 students and teachers lined the sidewalk on Travis Boulevard in front of the Fairfield-Suisun Adult School Wednesday in a noontime protest over proposed cuts that would gut adult education offerings. “If we start with the parents, it trickles down to the next generation,” said teacher Betty Harrington. “If we don’t speak [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun School District governing board will decide Thursday between two budget cut lists that pit closing an elementary school, a high school and eliminating sports against ceasing to offer kindergarten for one year, among other cuts. “It’s horrific choices,” board president Kathy Marianno said Wednesday. “What do you do?” Related content Fairfield-Suisun Adult [...]
FAIRFIELD — High school seniors and their parents are invited to a “Cash for College” workshop from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Fairfield Civic Library, 1150 Kentucky St. Those attending will receive help applying for a Cal Grant. In addition, those who complete an exit survey and meet application deadlines are entered [...]
FAIRFIELD — Three closed schools could be exchanged for land near Rockville Corners under a property exchange agreement before the governing board Thursday. Under the agreement, the Fairfield-Suisun School District would get nearly 53 acres along Rockville Road in exchange for giving up Falls, Mary Bird and the former Sem Yeto school sites. The board [...]
Monday No school Tuesday Krispy Kreme orders 8:05 a.m., Root Elementary Safety Academy Parent Nite 6 p.m., Crystal Middle Wednesday Coffee with principal 8:30 a.m., Root Elementary Thursday School Site Council meeting 3 p.m., Fairview Elementary Parent/teacher conferences 5 p.m., Crystal Middle Friday Gemstone field trip 9 a.m., Crystal Middle Jamba Juice fundraiser 2:15 p.m., [...]
FAIRFIELD — A letter in the mail from the Fairfield-Suisun School District said, in so many words, that Eddie Martinez could be held back in the seventh grade or consider a new program where he would be an eighth-grader. For him, it was an easy choice. “This is like a second chance,” said Martinez, 13. [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun School District sent a message to the community in June after it removed high school sports from the chopping block: more community funds would be needed to maintain the programs. District officials on Wednesday said the opposite has happened. Save Our Athletic Programs, a community-based organization, raised $65,375 in the 2009-10 [...]
FAIRFIELD — When Mayrene and Jim Bates left for Cuba last week, wasn’t the ordinary pickpockets they needed to worry about, according to Cuba Cultural Travel. It’s the cars that can be perilous to Americans’ health. Travel to Cuba? For more information, go to: http://www.cubaculturaltravel.com http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/cuba.aspx http://www.commonwealthclub.org “The biggest threat to most tourists in Cuba [...]
FAIRFIELD — Vanden High School’s robotic’s team is busy gearing up for the Sacramento Regional FIRST Robotics Competition in March. The tournament is “the varsity sport for the mind,” according to the FRC Sacramento website. Each team’s robots will try to score as many basketball hoops as it can. Balls scored in the higher hoops win [...]
FAIRFIELD — Police Chief Walt Tibbet began a talk Thursday to students at Sullivan Middle School with a question: What time did you wake up this morning? One child said 5 a.m. Another said 7 a.m. Tibbet replied that he woke up at 6 a.m. — Wednesday. A spate of violence — three unrelated shootings — [...]
FAIRFIELD — Solano Community College is looking to appoint someone to a vacant governing board seat once held by James Claffey. Claffey, who was elected to the seven-member board in December 2000, died Feb. 6. The board had the option to hold a special election or appoint a trustee for the remainder of the vacant [...]
FAIRFIELD — Ghastly. Disgusting. A world of hurt. All words Superintendent Jacki Cottingim-Dias used Wednesday to describe the Fairfield-Suisun School District’s list of possible budget cuts. As it stands now, the district is $6.5 million in the hole. In a more than four-hour study session, the board moved ahead a plan that, if passed, calls [...]
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