When Leticia Garcia Arango started classes at both Santa Rosa Junior College’s campus in 2016, she had little direction. “I didn’t have a major. I didn’t know what I was doing,” the 24-year-old Petaluma resident said. “I wanted to go to a four-year college, but I just didn’t know how it worked.” That all changed… Keep Reading
ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (KRON) – More than 300 educators in the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District will strike on Thursday. This comes following months of negotiations with the school district and board to invest in the student and teachers. According to the Rohnert Park Cotati Educators Association, teachers, nurses, and other school employees will participate in the… Keep Reading
When Sierra Bradley walked into her fourth-grade classroom this week at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, she couldn’t count on more than half of her students being present. Of 20 students enrolled in her class, only 10 or fewer were there during the start of the second week back after winter break ended.… Keep Reading
Dec. 25—As Santa Rosa CityBus seeks to maintain public transit during the ongoing pandemic, student passengers are giving ridership a boost after the city made travel free for students through their senior year of high school. The program, a one-year pilot, so far seems to be a success, according to transit officials, marking a rare… Keep Reading
Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, Calif., has broken ground to replace campus facilities destroyed in a 2017 wildfire. The two-story, 24,000-square-foot Student Life Center and Library, will replace the previous library and media center, the Catholic school says in a news release. Much of the Cardinal Newman campus was destroyed in the 2017 Tubbs Fire, a wildfire that… Keep Reading
SANTA ROSA, CA — A Santa Rosa resident has been named a National Merit Scholar and will receive a scholarship for their college undergraduate study. National Merit Scholar Schuyler Jones, who attends Stevenson School Pebble Beach, was among a group of 3,100 winners announced Wednesday. The scholars will be awarded between $500 and $2,000 annually… Keep Reading
Cloverdale High School’s graduation and Washington School’s promotion are both moving forward for an in-person celebration, but the specifics of what it will look like will be largely dependent on where the county sits in the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy tier system. “It’s a nail-biter because it does matter whether we’re in yellow… Keep Reading
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Without mandating anything, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that he wants schools to open next year. “This is a challenging transition,” he said Wednesday in front of Sheppard Elementary School in Santa Rosa. “But we’re ready now. We can do this. We must do it. We must prepare now for in-person learning come… Keep Reading
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lakeport Unified School District Board of Trustees on Thursday night selected its newest member. During its regular meeting, held at the Marge Alakszay Center on the district campus, the board selected Jennifer Williams-Richardson to fill a board vacancy created last month when Trustee Jeannie Markham moved to Oregon. Williams-Richardson was… Keep Reading
Relaxed state guidelines issued Saturday for California schools could mean some primary grades are back to full-time, in-person instruction before this academic year is out, Sonoma County Schools Superintendent Steve Herrington said. That’s because the state has decided to align with guidance issued Friday by federal health officials, who now say masked students can sit… Keep Reading
