February 9th, 2010 12:44pm
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Analy High School’s Honor Choir will host another fundraiser Feb. 11 as the group tries to raise funds to send the singers to Carnegie Hall in New York this spring.
The honor choir has been invited by the Distinguished Concerts International New York to perform in “the city & the sea: The Music of Eric Whitacre meets the poetry of e.e. cummings.”
The performance is April 17. All 61 singers are planning …
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February 8th, 2010 04:16pm
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Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, stopped by The Healdsburg School Monday to visit classrooms, meet with head of school Sandi Passalacqua and take questions from students at the kindergarten through eighth grade campus.
Thompson represents the first congressional district which stretches from the Bay Area, along the coast, to the Oregon border and includes all or parts of Sonoma, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa and Yolo counties.
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February 6th, 2010 07:36am
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Twenty-two Sonoma County schools have been recognized by the California Business for Education Excellence.
Eighteen schools were noted for excelling in “getting students to grade level proficiency” according to the letter from CBEE executive director Kirk Clark.
The 2009 honor roll list from the CBEE increased from 911 in 2008 to 1,304 in 2009.
“We got a nice banner that I hung up,” said Eric Hoppes, superintendent of Wilmar School district and principal …
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February 5th, 2010 04:46pm
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In case you missed it, check out Kent Porter’s photos from a visit to a couple of Piner High’s culinary arts classes.
See them here: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=SR&Date=20100204&Category=PHOTONEWS&ArtNo=204009991&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=1
Kent was out there to illustrate a story about the ongoing debate over career technical education funding.
Read that story here: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100205/NEWS/2051101/1350?Title=Career-classes-likely-to-stay
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February 5th, 2010 12:42pm
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Have you seen this?
The Press Democrat has a new Teen Life blog online that features a wide range of topics from first cars, to talent competitions to the ongoing debate over the merits of teaching “The Tortilla Curtain” by T.C. Boyle.
The thing about this blog is that it is written by high school students. It’s worth a look.
If you don’t see your high school featured, give this a read and …
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February 4th, 2010 03:04pm
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UPDATE: Check out the comments below to find out what students from Brook Hill Elementary School and St. Lutheran School have done with their fundraisers. Is your school doing something? Let us know…
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Coyote Valley Elementary School third graders are chipping in to help Haitians. The students started a dollar drive and gathered $680 for Save the Children.
The fundraiser quickly spread beyond the third grade and the whole school got behind …
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TAGS Coyote Valley Elementary School, Rincon Valley Middle School, Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School, Save the Children | CATEGORY Uncategorized
February 3rd, 2010 07:00am
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Cardinal Newman High School is hosting a Bollywood-themed fundraiser to help raise funds for Wells for Life, an organization that provides clean drinking water to communities in India.
The March 13 event will feature dancing, live music, silent auctions, henna tattoos and dance lessons for participants. Food will be provided by the chefs from Pamposh restaurant.
Wells for Life director Michael Viser will be the guest speaker.
The event is from 12 p.m. …
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February 1st, 2010 07:45pm
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An accelerated charter school for fifth and sixth graders will be established on the Cook Middle School campus next fall when Patricia Turner takes over the job of principal.
Turner, who is currently principal at Burbank Elementary School, will move over to Cook on April 5 to work with outgoing principal Harriet Gray until the end of the school year, said Santa Rosa School District Superintendent Sharon Liddell.
Gray is retiring after …
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February 1st, 2010 12:00pm
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UPDATE: Good thought, reader Bob. I looked and found the following female D.H.s: Debbie Hamilton, Diane Hausknecht, Debbie Hill and Delonee Hinkle. The photos are here:
http://srhsf.org/index.php?/gallery_yearbooks/image_full/1767/
http://srhsf.org/index.php?/gallery_yearbooks/image_full/1768/
Does this produce any leads?
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I found this item in the Santa Rosa High School Foundation newsletter.
Apparently Pat Sartain, who is now the principal’s secretary at Maria Carrillo but formerly worked at Santa Rosa High, found a class ring back in her …
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January 31st, 2010 07:00am
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Prestwood Elementary School in Sonoma got two new bike racks installed on campus in part because of their massive turnout for last fall’s Walk and Roll to School Day.
Credit goes to Marmot Mountain, whose employees won the regional Team Bike Challenge as part of last spring’s Bike to Work Day. Their prize? Two new bike racks.
The Marmot team selected Prestwood because of that school’s enthusiastic participation in the annual Walk …
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