Skyler Penny, a sixth grader at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, is Santa Rosa City Schools student of the month. “He’s patient, observant, caring and has a great sense of humor, humble, considerate, inclusive, generous, conscientious, persevering and sensitive,” said Penny’s third grade teacher Bonnie Raines. “This kid [...]
Third through eighth grade students at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts are putting on a play about bullying for the school and wider community this week and next, but the show is not without controversy. One segment of the many vignettes in the production that students have been [...]
The waiting list to get into the fall 2011 kindergarten class at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts is at 59, according to principal Anna Guzman. That number has come into play in recent weeks as Santa Rosa City Schools officials work to decide how to deal with that [...]
After more than two hours of emotional public debate about the future of the rapidly growing Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, school board member Laura Gonzalez wanted to make something perfectly clear – no decisions have been made. Some parents, both at last night’s public forum at the [...]
UPDATE: A letter to the editor in today's Press Democrat serves as a reminder of the two upcoming public forums scheduled to discuss the future of Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts and Doyle Park Elementary School. The dates and times of the upcoming meetings are listed below. To [...]
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 [...]