Top 5 SRP Stories of the Week

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San Ramon Valley schools once again showed improvement in the 2012 Academic Performance Index Growth Report.

The overall 2012 API growth score for the district was 927, up 5 points from the 2011 API Base score of 922. It marks a two-year growth of 11 points.

These results continue to place SRVUSD as the eighth highest unified school district in the state and the highest among unified districts with more than 9,000 students tested.

2. Bay Area Walmart Workers Involved In Symbolic Walkout

The opening of a Walmart Neightborhood Market in San Ramon last month is one of the reasons some Walmart workers went on strike at five Bay Area stores on Tuesday, union organizers said.

A handful of workers at five Bay Area Walmarts — in San Leandro, Richmond, Oakland, Fremont and San Jose — are at the center of a historic effort to organize Walmart, which has been non-union for 50 years.

3. San Ramon Valley Students Honored For 9/11 Essays

It wasn't the easiest of essay topics — "How 9/11 Affected Volunteerism in America" — but students of all ages in the San Ramon Valley tackled the question and were honored with awards and money for their efforts at the San Ramon City Council meeting Tuesday night.

4. Why Do We Love The 2012 Oakland Athletics?

You didn't have to be an A's fan to fall in love with this year's team. The season is now over, but read why the San Ramon Patch editor (me) thought this year's season was so much fun.

5. San Ramon Man Leads List of California's Delinquent Taxpayers

At the top of the list is Halsey Minor, the founder of CNET who lists his residence as San Ramon.

FTB officials say Minor, 48, owes $10.7 million in unpaid taxes. the board estimated he owed $14.2 million. A lien was placed on his property in July 2009.

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