Posts tagged Sacramento City Unified
County fiscal adviser suspends new Sacramento City Unified agreement with teachers
September 20, 2026 // Sacramento County Office of Education-appointed fiscal adviser has temporarily suspended Sacramento City Unified’s approval of a new teachers union agreement, saying the district did not comply with state law in the process. The development follows the school board’s approval Thursday of an agreement that would extend the use of the district’s retiree health fund for one additional year to cover an estimated $23.6 million in retiree health costs during the 2028-29 school year.
Sacramento City Unified students could face 16 added school days. Here’s when and why
March 21, 2024 // Sacramento City Unified School District students may attend eight extra days of classes each of the next two years to make up for lost instruction time after an eight-day strike shut down campuses in 2022 and to avoid a $47 million state-imposed penalty. Sacramento’s largest district and its teachers union agreed to spread the 16 days across two years during negotiations regarding teacher raises and lowering class sizes.
Sacramento schools again at risk of financial distress with enrollment declines, new contracts
April 26, 2022 // Sacramento City Unified School District is again facing financial distress just weeks after it approved labor agreements to end its eight-day teacher strike, Sacramento county education officials said last week. The Sacramento Office of Education gave the district's budget a negative certification, stating the contracts and the strike itself would cost the district millions of dollars and could threaten insolvency.