Rocklin

Rocklin basketball coaches selected to helm of Optimist games

With a combined record of 40-20 for both boys and girls basketball this season, Rocklin High coaches Rob Ferraro (girls) and Casey Cutts (boys) were selected to coach the North tea ...

Our View: Charter schools need better oversight

What do $800,000 and a $19 million charter school have to do with us? These are taxpayer monies paid into the state’s education system that have partly gone to waste. The ...

Hands-on lessons impart skills to developmentally disabled

Kim Clapshaw’s Auburn office is set up like a home. There’s even a full kitchen. It provides a backdrop for teaching functional living skills to the mentally disabled. ...

Horizon Charter Schools parts ways with official who signed Rocklin deals

The Horizon Charter Schools official who signed off on what would ultimately be a problematic lease and more than $800,000 in tenant improvements for its Rocklin site is no longer ...

Squaring off: Charter vs. traditional public schools

  As soon as visitors enter a science classroom at John Adams Academy, the Roseville charter school shows one way it distinguishes itself from traditional public schools. ...

In Horizon Charter Schools’ case, parents provide ultimate oversight

  Scott Leaman says the art of charter schools oversight is a delicate balancing act – ensuring the school is in compliance while also allowing the flexibility that def ...

Horizon Charter School site upgrades add to $2M budget problem

As a parent who had a student in Horizon Charter Schools’ now-shuttered Accelerated Learning Academy, Treva Saini said she sees a number of problems with how the program in L ...

Horizon Charter Schools CEO: ‘I don’t have anything to hide’

Craig Heimbichner said his office at Horizon Charter Schools headquarters in Lincoln has received a bit of a makeover since all the drama unfolded with the closure of one of its pr ...

Short-sited: How Horizon Charter School’s $800,000 investment went wrong

No school children, no Horizon Charter Schools sign, no teachers, no cars – nothing. On a sunny day in mid February outside 290 Technology Way in Rocklin, the only indicatio ...

Investigative series looks into $19M public charter school

  One of the original pillars of the charter educational movement in California has been shaken. Horizon Charter Schools is one of the longest standing charters in the state ...