The Lobo Community Fair is returning to the campus of Elsie Allen High this Sunday. The free, family event runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the Bellevue Avenue campus. It will feature a petting zoo, jump houses, food booths and community organizations that will be tabling. The community [...]
Elsie Allen High senior Ben Nguyen is Santa Rosa City Schools high school student of the month for May. Nguyen, the class valedictorian, has earned a 4.58 grade point average and is bound for Dartmouth in the fall. Because of his extensive studies and commitment to Elsie’s University Center program, [...]
While working on a story about Elsie Allen High School government teacher Brien Farrell, I learned something Thursday. I actually learned a lot, but one thing struck me as amazing. In his lesson covering government’s role in major civil rights decisions, with a focus on the 1950s, Farrell told his [...]
Elsie Allen High School’s Interact Club (described to me as Rotary for high schoolers) has been honored as the best club in the northern California region -- for the fourth year in a row. The club, co-presided over by Ben Nguyen (read a profile of him here: http://bit.ly/cYrpRY) and Alysha Risch, [...]
UPDATE: Since the CSBA declined to reward any lawmakers this year, I wondered who was honored last year. This just in from Frank Pugh: The Board of Directors ratified the following state lawmakers who have earned CSBA's annual recognition for working actively to improve California's public schools and exercising legislative [...]