Outgoing State Superintendent of Schools Jack O’Connell on Friday released the top 27 continuation high schools in the state. Laguna High School in Sebastopol was honored as a “2011 Model Continuation High School.” Continuation high schools serve students who lack sufficient school credits and are at risk of not graduating. [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools and Cotati-Rohnert Park have won a combined $240,000 from the Enhancing Education Through Technology competitive grants. Santa Rosa was awarded $190,000 and Cotati-Rohnert Park will get $50,000, according to the California Department of Education, which announced the awards today. In Mendocino County, Ukiah Unified was awarded [...]
Not surprisingly, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell on Wednesday cheered Jerry Brown's announcement that he wants to eliminate the state Secretary for Education position. Here is O'Connell's full statement: “I applaud Jerry Brown’s decision to work closely with the California Department of Education and the State Board of [...]
UPDATE: Windsor High Principal Marc Elin just sent these photos over from today's luncheon with State Schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell. Check them out. ______ Outgoing state superintendent of schools Jack O’Connell will visit Windsor High School this afternoon and take a tour of some of the school’s career technical facilities, [...]
In a teleconference with reporters on the release of the latest round of API and AYP scores, state schools chief Jack O’Connell said now is the time to consider upping the state’s goal from a target of 800 to something beyond. How much beyond, he wouldn’t say. Now is the [...]
Five Sonoma County students are expected to be in Sacramento today to receive Comcast’s Leaders and Achievers scholarship. The following students will win $1,000 each: Ryan Afflect of El Molino High Maria Dilley of Cloverdale High Jonathan Edens of Rincon Valley Christian School Lauren Gibson of Ursuline High Anjelica Price-Rocha [...]
UPDATE II: I mistakenly left Austin Creek off of the list. It's been added below. ______ UPDATE: This is the elementary school list. When the secondary list is released, I'll do a follow-up post. ______ Ten Sonoma County elementary schools have been named to the state’s 2010 California Distinguished Schools [...]
Two Sonoma County schools are among those being honored by the California Department of Education as a 2009-10 Title 1 Academic Achievement Award winner. Piner Elementary and R.L. Stevens Elementary schools were among the 238 honored by the state. “These award recipients prove that with hard work and high expectations, [...]
State schools chief Jack O’Connell announced this morning that the state is implementing a new “Migrant Student Information Exchange” system to help teachers and administrators keep track of students, their academic records and other information. As described by the California Department of Education, the system is designed to help track [...]