“Race to Nowhere” will be shown at Maria Carrillo High School on Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. Tickets are free but must be preordered. For information, go to http://rtnmchs.eventbrite.com For more information, call 206-2629.
UPDATE: Here is the full story that will run in Saturday's story: http://bit.ly/gvoZfo ____________________ A story is slated to run in Friday’s Press Democrat about Sebastopol’s Glen Weaver and his 18-month quest to put books in the hands of anyone in Sonoma County who might not otherwise have easy access. [...]
The discussion item related to Santa Rosa City Schools independent P.E. program had board members atwitter Wednesday night. The disparity between which school’s students apply for an individualized phys ed program, thereby bypassing gym requirements on campus, struck a nerve with a few board members. The numbers? 105 Maria Carrillo [...]
UPDATED: Here is a link to the story about Chau that ran in Friday's Press Democrat: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20101013/ENTERTAINMENT/101019893 ____________ Santa Rosa High School grad Angie Chau (class of ’92) was at Copperfield’s in Santa Rosa Saturday night reading from her new book “Quiet as They Come.” Chau, who studied at Cal [...]
Rand Van Dyke has been named the new principal at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa. Van Dyke takes over for Mark Klick who last month took over as assistant superintendent of human resources at the district office. Sue Sion has been in place as the interim principal and will remain [...]
Some last minute wrangling over schedules seems to have worked out in the favor of students at Piner and Maria Carrillo High Schools. A crew of students from Carrillo showed up at last week’s Santa Rosa School Board meeting to protest the announced cancelation of their Advanced Placement biology class [...]
UPDATE: I just spoke with Superintendent Sharon Liddell who said Sue Sion will take over temporarily at Maria Carrillo. Sion, who is retired, spent a good chunk of last year at the helm of Santa Rosa High when they had principal turnover. She was prohibited from finishing out the year [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools this week released their annual internal report on college scholarships received by its graduating seniors. Santa Rosa High’s class of 2010 pulled in by far the most money: $1,717,717 between 142 students. There were 436 students in the graduating class. Montgomery’s grads pulled in $609,896 between [...]
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 [...]
Maya DiRado, a Stanford-bound Maria Carrillo High senior, is Santa Rosa City School’s student of the month. Press Democrat reporter Eric Branch did a great story on DiRado earlier this month. Read that here (because I’d be here all day if I listed half of her accomplishments): http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091031/SPORTS/910319970 Meantime, here [...]