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, [...]
UPDATE: A small change to the committee assignments below. Trustee Laura Gonzalez will not serve on the finance committee as previously noted. The change has been made below. ________ The Santa Rosa City School Board has made its new committee and campus liaison assignments. Board President Bill Carle requested board [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools has released its annual attendance rates for 2011-12, tallied by school. Here is are the average rates of absenteeism (ranked highest to lowest) on each campus: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Brook Hill, 5 percent Steele Lane, 4.94 percent Doyle Park, 4.71 percent Monroe, 4.57 percent Lincoln, 4.24 percent [...]
The annual sports report is out. Santa Rosa City Schools has released its competitive athletic unaudited fiscal analysis for 2011-12. The report details what the district’s general fund pays to support athletic programs at middle and high schools and separates funds that are received and expended via student body accounts [...]
Elsie Allen High School will host a parent and student information night for its award-winning University Center program on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The event is geared toward students and families of prospective 8th graders and will feature teachers and current students talking about the program. Parents and students will be [...]
UPDATE: The Santa Rosa School Board included the annual scholarship totals on Wednesday night's regular agenda three weeks after it originally appeared after Trustee Bill Carle asked for the item to come back for discussion. (A correction to Piner's totals, made by district staff, has been changed below.) Carle raised concern [...]
Elsie Allen’s Hector Iturbe is Santa Rosa City Schools high school student of the month for March. Iturbe is ranked number one in his class with an impressive 4.44 grade point average while taking classes through Elsie’s University Center program. As a sophomore, Iturbe was accepted into Stanford’s Medical Youth [...]
We wrote a story back in November about the inaugural year of the Compact for Success program at Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa. Compact for Success guarantees a spot at Sonoma State University for Cook students who graduate from partner high school Elsie Allen with a 3.0 grade point [...]
Piner High School has nabbed the prestigious Golden Bell Award for its Geospatial Technology Program. Piner will be honored by the California School Boards Association at their annual meeting Dec. 3 in San Diego. Led by teachers Kristi Erickson and Kurt Kruger, the three-year pathways program teaches students global positioning [...]