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Old 05-16-2008, 12:52 AM
 
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Hi, I am thinking about accepting a position in Santa Rosa, but the quality of the public school system (mainly middle school & high school) is very important to us. I live in a suburb in Minnesota. We have wonderful school district and many high quality music schools, gymnastic schools, and such near by. I know nothing about Santa Rosa or nearby cities. Any recommendations?
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Old 05-16-2008, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Nor Cal
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Montgomery High School is one of the best in Sonoma County. I don't know if there are any good middle schools anywhere! ha Sonoma County has private schools though...
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Old 03-09-2010, 11:39 AM
 
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Montgomery High School is one of the best in Sonoma County. I don't know if there are any good middle schools anywhere! ha Sonoma County has private schools though...
well,sebastopol has two public waldorf charter schools,k-8. They are small schools, and waldorf ed. provides alot of 'extras',in terms of music, arts, etc.
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Old 09-09-2010, 12:41 PM
 
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Rincon valley middle school and Rincon valley charter school.
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Old 09-09-2010, 04:47 PM
 
Location: State of Jefferson coast
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It's really not an issue of one district or another. It's the Minnesota vs. California divide in regards to prioritizing education. You could hardly pick two states that are at more opposite ends of the spectrum in educational quality. California is in a budgetary death spiral and the schools are at the bottom of the vortex. A lot of districts engage in "pay scale attrition:" whenever a teacher retires or resigns, they will only hire a replacement teacher who can start at the bottom of the pay scale (step 1 or 2). As a result, experience has become a negative when hiring teachers. The educator market in much of the state is budget-driven rather than qualifications-driven. A cheap inexperienced teacher is more desirable than a more experienced, more expensive one. Some school districts have banded together to sue the State of California for its current dysfunctional -- and they would say, unconstitutional -- manner of financing education (see Robles-Wong v. California).

There will be substantial educational culture shock anywhere you go in California. I don't think it will be any worse in Santa Rosa than elsewhere in the state and there are certainly options there that are more favorable than what a lot of districts have.
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