When their eighth-grade class split into teams for the Stock Market Game, four students weren’t asked to join any others, so they formed their own team. Austin, Darrius, Adrin and Emily had the last laugh when they beat not only… LGA eighth-graders beat most high schoolers in ‘Stock Market Game’

             Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream lived on Friday in the hearts and mouths of American Lakes School sixth-graders.               In a moving performance laced with quotes from King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, students stood side-by-side chanting together about… ‘Free at Last!’ — American Lakes School pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King

Healthy kids make good learners, so Natomas Unified School District is partnering with a children’s advocacy group to offer an informational and sign-up event for health insurance offered through Covered California, a state-operated exchange. The session, titled “All In –… NHS ‘All In’ event touts health insurance for area residents

             Schools don’t give grades for cooking dog treats or having big hearts — but if they did, 10-year-old Arcana would top the list.                The Two Rivers Elementary School fifth-grader already knows what she wants in life: For dogs… Arcana’s 144 doggy treats are a big hit at Two Rivers Elementary

NUSD Back in the black. Overcoming several years of fiscal challenges, Natomas Unified School District is projecting itself on solid financial ground. The Board of Trustees recently issued a positive certification for the district, meaning that projections show it will… NUSD Projects Fiscal Stability with ‘Positive Certification’

SD Natomas Unified School District plans to disconnect its old website on Dec. 23. Here’s why: When we launched the district’s newly redesigned website on Oct. 24, we characterized it as a “soft launch,” meaning that we no longer would update… Message from NUSD: Old Website to Shut Down

Here’s the assignment:  Cook dinner for 200 people. Students in Discovery High School’s Culinary Arts program did precisely that, creating a feast that included turkey, ham, chicken, jambalaya, tamales, macaroni and cheese, candied yams, dressing, fruit salad, chocolate chip cookies… Dinner for 200? Culinary Arts offers Thanksgiving feast

One came bearing money, the other advice, but the common denominator was a positive message about students’ future in separate campus appearances October 25th by Assemblyman Richard Pan and Intel representative Dan Ponzo. Pan, a Sacramento Democrat, appeared at a… Two campuses, two themes, same goal: Helping Students

Natomas High School students have built a prosthetic arm for lifting a bucket, a conveyor belt for dropping chocolate chips on cookies, and a 16-foot-long piano for playing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” These and other creative projects have been tackled… Want To Build Robots or Practice Medicine? Try Natomas High School