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New hires in Santa Rosa City Schools

 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. [...]

By | June 15th, 2011|0 Comments

Lawrence E. Jones garden taking root

In celebration of Earth Day, the Green Team at Lawrence E. Jones Middle School in Rohnert Park continued its overhaul of five plots the students plan to fill with flowers, pumpkins, root vegetables, spring berries and other seasonally appropriate crops. The project is a key part of the establishment of [...]

By | April 23rd, 2011|1 Comment

School transportation agency honored

The West County Transportation Agency won Assemblyman Jared Huffman’s North Bay Sustainable Award for the month of March. Huffman, D-San Rafael, presented the award at Lawrence E. Jones Middle School in Rohnert Park on March 31. “I am very impressed with the steps that the Cotati-Rohnert Park School District and [...]

By | April 4th, 2011|0 Comments

Cotati-Rohnert Park kindergarten registration

Cotati-Rohnert Park is accepting kindergarten registration packets beginning Feb. 1. Parents can register through the end of the year. Immunization records from the student’s doctor are required for registration. The deadline for requests for students transferring into the district is May 2. Requests received after May 1 will be held [...]

By | January 19th, 2011|0 Comments

Local schools awarded federal grants

Santa Rosa City Schools and Cotati-Rohnert Park have won a combined $240,000 from the Enhancing Education Through Technology competitive grants. Santa Rosa was awarded $190,000 and Cotati-Rohnert Park will get $50,000, according to the California Department of Education, which announced the awards today. In Mendocino County, Ukiah Unified was awarded [...]

By | November 29th, 2010|0 Comments

Cotati-RP unions make their school board picks

Cotati-Rohnert Park’s teachers and school staff unions have made their endorsements for school board. Both the teachers and California School Employee Association Local 645 are backing George Steffensen Marc Orloff Andrew Longmire Both groups passed on incumbents Eric Kirchmann and Leff Brown. Mark Galipeau, past president of the teachers union [...]

By | October 6th, 2010|0 Comments

Middle school sports to return to Cotati-RP

It looks like middle school sports are returning to Cotati-Rohnert Park. The cash-strapped district cut middle school sports in 2009 but Superintendent Barbara Vrankovich said “tremendous community support” has sparked their return. The rollout will be incremental depending on financial support from the community. Fundraising is under way with an active [...]

By | August 19th, 2010|1 Comment

Cotati-Rohnert Park to consider future of middle school sports tonight

Amid all of the bad news related to finances in the Cotati-Rohnert Park school district recently, the conversation about reinstating middle school sports is set to begin at the regular school board meeting tonight. While only a discussion item and far from a done deal, the move marks a significant [...]

By | June 8th, 2010|2 Comments