Schools Plus founding member and longtime Santa Rosa High School English teacher John Bribiescas will be honored with the 2013 Spirit of Charles DeMeo Award at a gala fundraiser Sept. 7. The event is sold out. It is the first time the award will be given. The honor recognizes the [...]
Santa Rosa High School is now offering opportunities to shadow ArtQuest students for a day. Students who are interested in joining the arts-focused magnet program are encouraged to shadow an active student for a day. If interested, call the ArtQuest office at 535-4842.
Piner High School’s Andrea Correia has been named assistant principal at Santa Rosa High School. Correia has spent 14 years teaching in Santa Rosa City Schools, including at Piner where she taught government, was social science department chairwoman and lead the school’s associated student body class. Correia will earn a [...]
A video production team Analy High School was given the equivalent of an Emmy award when it was awarded the “Pillar of Excellence” from the Northern California chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. A team from Santa Rosa High’s ArtQuest program earned an “Award of Excellence” [...]
The Santa Rosa School Board has selected Ridgway High School incoming senior Joseph McCloud 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 preferential [...]
Ceremony assignments are set to be formalized tonight for the string of Santa Rosa City Schools graduation festivities. For those interested, here is the lineup of which trustees will preside over which events. All graduations are on May 31 except for Mesa which is on May 30: Elsie Allen and Midrose, [...]
SchoolsPlus is at it again. The nonprofit that has been supporting athletics and arts in all Santa Rosa City Schools middle and high schools for more than two decades has upped their annual contribution to each campus, according to the group’s leaders. This year, all five comprehensive high [...]
Twelve Sonoma County high schools will be sending students to the countywide Poetry Out Loud competition Feb. 10. In the program, students memorize then recite poems. The pieces are not written by the students, but are typically considered greats in the English language. The participating schools include: Analy, Cloverdale, Creekside, [...]
Friends of ArtQuest is hosting a Mardi Gras Ball fundraiser next month to support the program at Santa Rosa High School. Tickets include Cajun-styled dinner, wine, a silent and live auction, and music by Gatorbeat. The event is from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Friedman Event [...]