January 30th, 2009 06:14pm
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Students enrolled in biotechnology at El Molino High School and their teacher Joan Vreeburg were invited to visit the Pathology Department at UCSF Medical School Jan. 16.
This experience gave students hands-on instruction in how to prepare tissue samples for pathological analysis by the scientists who work in the lab. The students were also taught how to use the electron microscope in another lab at UCSF.
The students were …
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January 30th, 2009 03:24pm
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Santa Rosa City Schools superintendent Sharon Liddell and tech director Rainer Wachalovsky will update members of the Teacher Advisory Committee on what is going on to remedy the many problems with the student information system at next week’s regular meeting.
The issues with senior transcripts has been in the news, but the problems have been discussed at the TAC since the early fall. I expect board members and staff reps to …
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January 29th, 2009 06:12pm
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An astute reader pointed out that I flubbed the name of the city in this post earlier today. The following has been corrected:
A school district in Charleston, South Carolina voted to halt the hiring of substitute teachers for the remainder of the school year in an effort to save money.
Apparently, principals and fellow teachers will fill in for instructors who are out between one and three days.
District officials told …
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January 29th, 2009 03:41pm
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Lani Frazer, a student at The Healdsburg School, took top prize for individual debate and was named top debater at the St. Vincent Invitational Junior High Speech and Debate Tournament last weekend. THSer Lindsay Buckel took second; Adrienne Saracy took third; Emma Tynan was fourth and Anna Sanderson came in sixth place.
For her efforts, Frazer won a scholarship to attend debate camp at St. Vincent’s in June.
In the …
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January 29th, 2009 03:22pm
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California State University students interested in holding the post of student trustee on the CSU board have until April 1 to apply.
The board of trustees is the highest policy-making body for the 23-campus Cal State system. Trustees establish policies on student fees, admissions, financial aid, technology, student services and other areas that impact approximately 450,000 CSU students.
It probably goes without saying, but the primary responsibility of the position is to …
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January 29th, 2009 01:27am
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I have written a number of stories about Comstock Middle School’s precarious future, as the West Steele Lane campus continues to struggle with declining enrollment and test scores amid a horrible fiscal climate.
The staff and administrators on that campus have rallied.
I outlined their plans to convert Comstock into Northwest Tech in early January.
(I am having trouble connecting the link to “Reinventing a Middle School,” but the story can still be …
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January 29th, 2009 01:14am
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Santa Rosa City Schools board members told a tearful Santa Rosa High School senior and her family that their concerns about the district’s new computer system and the problems it is causing with students transcripts are legitimate and that staff is working around the clock to solve the problem.
I first wrote about the problems with district’s new $3.1 million computer system in this blog in November. The transcript issue was …
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January 29th, 2009 12:57am
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Santa Rosa City Schools veteran board member (and president-elect of the California School Boards Association) ripped California lawmakers Wednesday night, saying the budget morass highlights what an utter failure both the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts have been.
Pugh accused Schwarzenegger of touting education spending increases that do not exist.
“That’s a lie and the governor needs to own it,” he said.
He went on to criticize Sacramento lawmakers for turning …
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January 29th, 2009 12:45am
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Slater Middle School students have chipped in for a classmate who was gravely injured by a drunken driver whose out of control truck crashed into a family waiting on a Yulupa Avenue bus stop earlier this month.
Spartans have helped raise $3,000 for Cruz Pineda, according to Santa Rosa City Schools board member Larry Haenel. A trust fund has been established at Exchange Bank for the Pineda family.
Slater student Cruz Pineda, …
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January 29th, 2009 12:37am
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Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School sixth graders Annika Arial and John Wiggins are members of that school’s Lego robotics class and gave an overview of their work and vision for the future of robotics at Wednesday night’s Santa Rosa City Schools board meeting.
The plan is to develop robots to fight wild fires instead of endangering the lives of human firefighters.
“We could easily take down any fire,” Wiggins to …
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