It's almost time for Kindergarten registration in the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District. Registration for the 2015-16 school year will begin Jan. 7. There will be a Kindergarten Fair Jan. 14 where parents can get more information. It will take place at Technology Middle School from 6 to 7 p.m. [...]
" He stumbled around, trying and failing to find Brooke. Trapped in a prison of grey, he tripped on a rock jutting out from the sidewalk and crashed to the concrete. Brooke flicked her hand, and the fog solidified into a blanket of ice, sealing the hired muscle inside." [...]
Healdsburg High School is receiving the prestigious Golden Bell award from the California School Boards Association in recognition of its Academic Internship Program. The program, in its fourth year, connects students about 150 students with 80 local businesses, were they work witha mentor for six days on a project using [...]
Eighty-one schools throughout the county received grants of up to $300 this month from the John Jordan Foundation's Teacher's Wishes program. In total, the foundation handed out about $29,000 to fund projects ranging the creation of a rainwater catchment system at a Sebastopol school to a family game night at [...]
First- and eighth-grade students at St. Vincent de Paul Elementary School in Petaluma teamed up this Veterans Day to make thank you cards for local vets. They crafted the cards, decorated with American flags, through a partnership called People Engaged in Acts of Kindness, or PALS. Each first-grade student gets [...]
Helen Lehman Elementary School Principal Alisa Haley has a mission: Collect a college t-shirt for each of her 530 students to wear. The idea is to help kids believe they can go to college, she said. Most students at Helen Lehman would be the first in their family to go to a [...]
Curious about Montgomery High School's International Baccalaureate Diploma Program? Interested students will have a chance to learn more during one of a series of fall presentations, the first of which is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13. During the orientations, parents and students in grades 7 to 10 can learn more [...]
Sonoma State University Sophomore and El Molino graduate Claudia Sisomphou, a resident of Forestville and a graduate of El Molino High School on Oct. 30 was named Student Volunteer of the Year at the North Bay Business Journal's Nonprofit Conference and Leadership Awards held at Sonoma State University. "Compassion is the greatest thingsyou [...]
We're taking suggestions: The Press Democrat is seeking to highlight exemplary teens, student who are engaged in something interesting that others would like to read about. We're interested in hearing from educators, parents and students who may know someone they’d like to nominate for a Teen Face profile on Sunday’s Teen [...]
Brook Hill Elementary School recently received a $4.200 grant to create a community garden, said third-grade teacher Katie Cooney. The grant comes through a San Francisco Giants program called Step up to the Plate for Education, which provides $100,000 in grants to 25 Bay Area schools. The $4.200 will help [...]