The Santa Rosa City Schools District is relocating its headquarters while officials decide what to do with deteriorating portable buildings that pose a health and safety threat to staff. The district offices, which are next to Ridgway High School, are made up of about 10 secondhand portables, most which are 70 years old and… Keep Reading
Sophia Salinas, 23, can’t remember much about what exactly lies inside the portable classroom with the red-door labeled “Indian Museum” at Roseland Elementary School. Inside the portable’s rotting plywood walls is a small collection of displays once dedicated to teaching students about Native American history and culture. It has been there 48 years and is… Keep Reading
The Santa Rosa City School board will interview two candidates for the open trustee position on Wednesday. Deanna Olivarez and Jeremy De La Torre are both longtime Area 7 residents with kids in the school district. Area 7 encompasses northeast Santa Rosa, Larkfield-Wikiup and Rincon Valley and includes the Carrillo and Rincon Middle School campuses.… Keep Reading
CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” Silvestri’s class fell silent as singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences in the Japanese American incarceration camps of World War II.… Keep Reading
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
