Maya Meislahn is Santa Rosa City Schools elementary school student of the month for April. Meislahn, a sixth graders at Brook Hill Elementary School, has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average and has been a fixture on the princpal’s honor roll for three years. A Girl Scout, Bobcat Rap [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools has released its annual attendance rates for 2011-12, tallied by school. Here is are the average rates of absenteeism (ranked highest to lowest) on each campus: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Brook Hill, 5 percent Steele Lane, 4.94 percent Doyle Park, 4.71 percent Monroe, 4.57 percent Lincoln, 4.24 percent [...]
Karla Mendoza of Brook Hill Elementary School is Santa Rosa City Schools Elementary Schools’ student of the month for April. Mendoza has been a Brook Hill Bobcat since the first grade and is lauded by staff and teachers there as a critical thinker, natural leader and hard worker. Mendoza has [...]
Emerald “Eme” Sherwood is Santa Rosa City Schools elementary school student of the month for May. Sherwood is student government secretary and a reporter for the school newspaper The Bobcat Rap where she specializes in profiles and personal interviews. A mainstay on the Principal’s Honor Roll list, Sherwood consistently receives [...]
Thirty-seven calls offering to help. Check that, not offering, committing to help. Not bad. In Wednesday’s Press Democrat there appeared a story I wrote about the Schools of Hope program in which the United Way and Volunteer Center of Sonoma County are teaming up to provide more than 250 tutors [...]