The Sacramento Bee\u2019s top stories on Friday spanned from coverage of a looming financial crisis at the region\u2019s largest school district, a Mother\u2019s Day weekend heat wave and a record-breaking day of philanthropy.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a quick rundown of what readers were following:<\/p>\n
Sacramento City Unified School District plans to cut 136 central office positions and lay off 606 classified employees<\/a> to save $23.7 million. It\u2019s the latest development in the drama that could lead to a state takeover of the school system because of its precarious financial position.Triple-digit temperatures are forecast<\/a> across Northern California and the Central Valley over Mother\u2019s Day weekend, with heat advisories in effect from 11 a.m. Monday through 8 p.m. Tuesday. Sacramento Valley cities could hit 100 degrees, while parts of the San Joaquin Valley may reach 102.Sacramento-area nonprofits raised a record $15.4 million during this year\u2019s Big Day of Giving<\/a>, exceeding last year\u2019s total by $1.6 million. The annual event has now raised more than $132 million cumulatively since its 2013 launch.Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the Golden State Start program, which will provide 400 free diapers to newborn parents<\/a> at 65 California hospitals serving low-income patients beginning this summer. The $7.4 million initiative responds to diaper prices that have risen 48% since the pandemic, costing families about $1,000 a year. <\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee\u2019s top stories on Friday spanned from coverage of a looming financial crisis at the region\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-307406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}