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SIERRA VISTA — After spending the morning at Buena High School, a group of 16 students from Radebeul, Germany visited Sierra Vista City Hall on Thursday. Meeting with Mayor Rick Mueller, City Council Member Gwen Calhoun, and City Manger Chuck Potucek, the students learned about some of the differences and similarities in how the city operates here compared to Sierra Vista’s sister city, back in Germany. The same can be said for many aspects of the local culture, like how the schools work, what the food is like and, of course, the climate. “The cars are very different, and the...

Hoover Dam, Empire State Building Constructed Faster than California SchoolsSAN FRANCISCO, CA - "Schools take six years or more to build in California, longer than a student's elementary education, and are as expensive as possible because of dated legislation and a bureaucratic quagmire, according to No Place to Learn: California's School Facilities Crisis, a new study by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). "California students are not getting the facilities they need for a quality education," said author K. Lloyd Billingsley, editorial director at PRI. "The cause is an obsolete bureaucratic system better at enriching adults than serving the needs of...