Redwood Credit Union will offer another round of free money management classes for high school juniors and seniors this month. The program is offered in coordination with Santa Rosa City Schools and the Sonoma County Office of Education. The 16-hour Financial Academy will use curriculum created by the National Endowment [...]
UPDATE: Through Region 1 and beyond. Piner's Simone Spearman was named Educator of the Year for all of California at the annual California League of High Schools Confererence in Sacramento last weekend. "Way to go, Simone! You are amazing!" Piner Principal Sally Bimrose wrote in a message to the Prospectors [...]
Curious about who won prizes at the Sonoma County Science Fair Tuesday? The results were distributed today, so they didn’t make the story about the fair. Here they are, courtesy of event coordinator Mike Roa of the Sonoma County Office of Education : (To read the story about Tuesday’s event, [...]
UPDATE: Here is a better link. http://www.scoe.org/pub/htdocs/superintendent.html I've updated the information below as well. _________ Steve Herrington is the new Superintendent of the Sonoma County Office of Education. Herrington who was formerly the Superintendent in Windsor took his oath of office Monday afternoon. Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Arthur Wick [...]
UPDATED: Here is some revised information on the blog item posted Monday on the math grant won by four local school districts, the Sonoma County Office of Education and Sonoma State University. Bellevue District is the lead player in a team that won a California Mathematics and Science Partnership grant. The [...]
The Child Care Planning Council of Sonoma County will host a town hall meeting next month to discuss how child care, or lack thereof, can affect myriad aspects of society, including schools. Child care can gobble up 25-34 percent of a family’s budget, according a study by the National Association [...]
Steele Lane Elementary School in Santa Rosa has been named the 2010-11 Adopt-A-School campus in a partnership between the Arts Council of Sonoma County and the Steele Lane School Enrichment Foundation. The program was launched today with a performance from students and a lineup of local leaders, including Sonoma County [...]
Sonoma County Office of Education has hired Nancy S. Brownell as the assistant superintendent of instruction. She replaces Don Russell who retired in January. Brownell begins July 1. As assistant superintendent, Brownell will oversee SCOE’s professional development, English language learner support service, training for school administrators and alternative education and [...]
Strawberry School celebrated its award-winning robotics team Tuesday after the team came away with an armful of prizes at the Sonoma County Robotics Challenge last Saturday. Check out the photos of their end-of-season party. Elementary and middle school students in grades four through eight competed in challenges with names like [...]
Six Sonoma County students have been invited to move onto the California State Science Fair in Los Angeles in May after winning a local competition on Feb. 24, according to officials at the Sonoma County Office of Education. Twenty-six other students won blue ribbons and will advance to the San [...]