Phoebe Hearst parents, staff continue to protest reassignment of Sacramento teacher

Mark Henrikson is planning Thursday to make his voice heard once more to the board of the Sacramento City Unified School District.

Henrikson teaches sixth grade at Phoebe A. Hearst Elementary School in east Sacramento. Recently, the school made national headlines because Henrikson’s former partner-teacher Jeanine Rupert was reassigned to a different school after she removed a piece of carpet in her classroom near the end of the last school year.

Rupert had distinguished herself teaching in the Gifted and Talented Education, or GATE program at Phoebe Hearst, particularly known for her ability to teach language arts. In Rupert’s absence, Henrikson said, a dozen substitutes have cycled through…

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