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Chinese acrobats, Hawaiian dancers and mariachis. At least 22 booths of food representing countries and cultures from around the world. That will be the scene Friday at Santa Rosa Middle School. ...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18057/multiple-cultures-at-sr-middle-friday/

This article on EdSource about kindergarten truancy contains this paragraph: The sentence in bold made me wonder this: What about dialing back the “heft” of the kindergarten curriculum? Would...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18052/too-much-in-kindergarten/

Mireya Arango is headed to Stanford University after a stellar high school career during which she surmounted considerable odds. Arango, a Petaluma High School student who took 13 honors and AP c...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18043/ascending-star/

The Bay Area operations of Summer Search — which include a Petaluma branch — have been awarded $500,000 by the Super Bowl 50 Fund. Summer Search works to close the opportunity gap for low-inc...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18035/18035/

Two Sonoma County businesswomen have launched a company to provide on-campus training for college students — and recent graduates — in resume writing, job hunting and interviewing skills. It�...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18032/nail-that-interview/

The Lincoln School Pageant was held at the Petaluma Elks Lodge, with school children from one of the last remaining one-room schoolhouses in Northern California performing “A Yankee Doodle Dand...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18027/yankee-doodle-sweetness/

Santa Rosa City Schools and Upstream Investments will hold a private screening of the Paper Tigers documentary by James Redford Thursday, Jan. 14 at 3:30 p.m. at Santa Rosa High School. Paper Tig...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18023/thursday-free-film-about-changing-the-cycle-of-adversity/

Here’s my story and an accompanying video about the Union School south of Petaluma, which is facin gclosure unless it can enroll one more student. Here’s a link to the story

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18018/18018/

The Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir in 2014. The respected Maria Carrillo High School Jazz Choir topped 10 tough competitors and was selected to sing the national anthem at the Dec. 26 Fost...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18014/no-chickens-on-mchs-jazz-choir/

Keith Walski, a Rancho Cotate High School graduate, is one of just 15 student artists worldwide to win a Robert Redford/Milagro Initiative Scholarship for 2015. A photographer, Walski, 18, will b...

https://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/18006/a-local-photographer-impresses-robert-redford/