Riffing on the popularity of the Ice Bucket Challenge, Rancho Cotate High School this month plunged some of its top officials into a dunk tank to raise money for the degenerative disease ALS. After students spent about two weeks raising more than $600, six staff members were plunged into the icy [...]

A number of students at Petaluma Junior High School wore mismatched shoes and socks to school this week - on purpose. They donned the unmatched shoes, as well as blue shirts, in support of a 26-year-old Delaware man who was recently the victim of alleged bullying and beatings by teenagers. The mentally [...]

Cardinal Newman staff and students dedicate a new statue of Jesus, By Rory McNamara Cardinal Newman High School celebrated its 50th anniversary on Monday with the dedication of a new statue of Jesus, a blessing ceremony and a visit from Bishop Robert Vasa. The Catholic school first opened [...]

The Petaluma Federation of Teachers held a public question and answer session for Petaluma City School Board Candidates Sept. 2, drawing a crowd of more than 50 people, said union member Carrie Caudle, who co-chairs a committee on political education. Two challengers and three incumbents, Sheri Chlebowski, Michael Baddeley and [...]

Analy High School Students For the fifth year in a row, Analy High has been ranked in the top 735 high schools in the nation by the Daily Beast Media Group, Principal Chris Heller announced this week. To create its top schools list, The Daily Beast reached out to what it [...]

Petaluma High School is racing to raise about $10,000 in the next week so that they can participate this semester in a national program where students develop microgravity research projects that, if accepted, will be launched into space next year. "I think we'll get there, but it's a little tight," [...]

Stephanie Quinlan St. Vincent Elementary, the 126-year-old Catholic school in Petaluma, has a new leader following the retirement last year of longtime Principal Susan Roffmann. The new principal, Stephanie Quinlan, grew up in Napa and has worked in Novato at Our Lady of Loretto School. Most recently, she was at [...]

A class of El Molino High School viticulture students got a hands-on lesson in grape growing early in the school year Tuesday when they helped harvest plump, ripe pinot noir grapes from the  school's one-acre vineyard. An El Molino High School viticulture and plant science student snips a cluster [...]

Just before most Santa Rosa-area schools return next week, teachers and administrators sat down to be honored at a breakfast hosted by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce.