Santa Rosa City Schools picked its next superintendent from Oakland Unified — a district that spent 22 years under state control before clawing its way out last summer. Santa Rosa is fighting to keep from going in. Monica Thomas, a longtime Oakland administrator, was named June 4 to run Sonoma County’s largest school system. The…
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Comstock Middle School closes for good as Santa Rosa schools claw out of fiscal crisis
SANTA ROSA — The last bell at Hilliard Comstock Middle School rang Friday, ending 54 years on West Steele Lane and closing one more campus in a Santa Rosa City Schools cost-cutting drive that district leaders describe as the deepest financial reckoning in their more than 100-year history. Comstock, which opened in January 1972 and…