While the Santa Rosa School Board on Wednesday night directed staff to move forward with checking out different proposals to initiate its almost year-old corporate sponsorship and naming rights policy, different opinions emerged on just how that should look in reality. Board president Bill Carle said he would not vote [...]
Interest has been high in the debate over whether to keep T.C. Boyle’s “The Tortilla Curtain” on high school reading lists at Santa Rosa City Schools. The school board voted Wednesday 7-0 to maintain its policy of keeping the book available and limiting it to juniors and seniors while allowing [...]
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 [...]