Santa Rosa School Board member Frank Pugh is also president of the California School Boards Association and as such he spent Wednesday in Sacramento alternately lobbying for greater education funding in the governor’s upcoming budget proposal and trying to figure out what is going on with Race to the Top. [...]
Heading into January when board members will likely make decisions on approximately $5.6 million in cuts beginning in the 2010-11 school year, (with the prospect of $4.7 million more for 2011-12), the Santa Rosa School Board has appointed new officers for the upcoming year. Bill Carle is president, Frank Pugh [...]
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 [...]
I did an item on the death of Eugene Mijares last week (click here to read it http://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/10779/eugene-mijares-remembered/), but a number of acknowledgements were made at tonight’s meeting for the man who spent a quarter of a decade working with students in Santa Rosa. Board President Donna Jeye offered her [...]