Maria Carrillo High School’s Xiaoyi “Michelle” Shao is Santa Rosa City Schools student of the month for May. Readers may recall that Shao was honored last week as one of the Press Democrat’s 10 outstanding seniors in the Community Youth Service Award. Shao won in the music category for her [...]
Remember my call for volunteer profile submissions? Well the feature on Debbie Prusinovski ran on Sunday. Prusinovski is a mother of three boys who all attend different schools in Petaluma, leading school officials to say she is everywhere at once. To read Prusinovski's story, click here: http://bit.ly/wbGqRh And as always, [...]
It's that time again -- I’m up for a volunteer profile in the coming days and need help finding a good subject. Does your school or classroom benefit from someone who goes above and beyond the norm to keep things running smoothly or to provide an extra service for students? [...]
Press Democrat reporter Robert Digitale has posted a blog item on college costs and the planning that goes into sending three children to a university. There is some good advice in here, from someone who has been through it. Have a look: http://bit.ly/wrgauv
Technology High in Rohnert Park is in the running for a $50,000 grant that would go toward establishing a jazz ensemble on campus. Viewers are allowed one vote per mechanism (online, text etc) per day. Voting ends Dec. 9. Parents (and Press Democrat Town’s correspondent Joelle Burnette) said Tech High [...]
The Press Democrat’s own Robert Digitale has a new book out and will be the Santa Rosa Copperfield’s tomorrow signing copies. This event is of particular note for local schools because Digitale and Copperfield’s are donating $2 from every book sale of “Horse Stalker” to SchoolsPlus. SchoolsPlus is [...]
How is your class marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks? If your school or class is doing something to mark the event or giving the lesson a unique approach, send me an email at Kerry.benefield@pressdemocrat.com The Press Democrat is looking at different ways to cover the anniversary [...]
The Santa Rosa School Board has selected Maria Carrillo High School incoming senior Richard Liang to be the student representative on the board beginning July 1. The board has included a student representative on the board since 1978. Schools are represented on a regular rotation. Student representatives are given a [...]
On one of my stops for the Press Democrat’s back to school coverage yesterday, I was at Corona Creek Elementary School in Petaluma where Principal Scott Mahoney spent time with students there going over rules, reminding students about certain ins and outs on campus and other refreshers. One of the [...]
Every year the Press Democrat hits a ton of our area graduations and the photographers post galleries of their work. But www.pressdemocrat.com is also a place where parents, friends and grads themselves can post photos from the big day. Have a photo to share? Click here: http://bit.ly/alPAFK