A handful of local teachers were celebrated for excellence in the classroom on the eve of the start of the school year. The annual “Education & Business Partnership Breakfast” put on by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce celebrated teachers from schools around Santa Rosa with a select few earning [...]
There are some administrative lineup changes in Santa Rosa City Schools for the fall. Gail Eagan is moving from Cotati-Rohnert Park to fill the assistant superintendent of K-6 curriculum post made vacant by Greg Espinoza’s retirement after 35 years with the district. Eagen held a similar post with Cotati-Rohnert Park. [...]
Tovi Jonah Balliao is Santa Rosa City Schools middle school student of the month for April. The Comstock Middle School eighth grader is top student with a 4.0 grade point average; outstanding athlete who competes in basketball, wrestling and track; and is an outgoing student leader on campus who typically [...]
Jose A. Benitez of Culver City has been named the new principal at Comstock Middle School. Benitez has been a teacher, program coordinator, dean of discipline and assistant principal at the middle and elementary school level, according to Santa Rosa City Schools. Benitez replaces Bob Dahlstet who is retiring at [...]
Juana Nunez, an eighth grader at Comstock Middle School, is Santa Rosa City Schools middle school student of the month for May. Nunez, a member of the Sonoma State University “Meteor” program for university-bound young women who excel in math and science, is praised for her keen curiosity and willingness [...]
For a full story on Comstock Middle School's reading challenge that culminated in principal Bob Dahlstet's kissing a dairy cow on the quad today, click here http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100323/ARTICLES/100329863/1349?Title=Middle-schoolers-in-moooood-to-reador see Wednesday's Press Democrat. Meantime, check out the list of top readers from the campus. Seventh grader Tracy Fernandez topped the list with [...]
UPDATE: Interested in Sho Boy's show? He can be found at 100.7 and 105.7 FM from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. ______ I am at Comstock Middle School for a guest speaker as part of the school’s newly adopted CREO program. The program – which focuses on [...]
More than 200 people jammed into Santa Rosa City Council chambers Wednesday night for what Santa Rosa School board members Donna Jeye and Bill Carle called the largest crowd they had ever seen. The tone was civil, there was very little finger pointing and many in the crowd and [...]
In light of my colleague Kevin McCallum’s story (click here to read http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090908/ARTICLES/909089932) in today’s Press Democrat about approximately $1,000 in graffiti damage at Maria Carrillo High, the item on the Santa Rosa City School Board agenda tonight entitled “Vandalism Repair and Graffiti Removal Summary of Costs for Supplies and [...]