Reading scores
EDITOR: Your editorial on teaching students to read (“If kids can’t read, they’re in for a lifelong struggle,” Sunday) missed an opportunity to acknowledge the only school district in Sonoma County to be counted among the top 50 districts in the state when it comes to reading instruction. The California Reading Coalition’s ranking of 285 school districts placed Sonoma County’s Wright elementary district at No. 42. If I were an administrator in Santa Rosa or Sonoma Valley, I would be on the phone with Lori Pola-Hoard, the principal at R. L. Stevens Elementary, to arrange a site visit to learn why — year after year — her school scores so highly in state rankings.
JERRY STEMACH
Santa Rosa
Power concerns
EDITOR: Sounds like a large increase in demand for electricity is on the horizon. No more gas water heaters and furnaces — going electric. Cooktops — going electric. No more gasoline cars — going electric. I marvel that elected officials seem to have confidence in the investor-owned utility that supplies electricity. Will it be ready? I’m sure that their management bonus plan will be ready. I am sure that the rate increase proposals will be ready. And no doubt the PR flimflam will be ready. But will the electrical supply and distribution system be capable, ready and affordable? One chicken, one egg, one basket.
EVERETT VAN GURP
Santa Rosa
Wake to the world
EDITOR: Linda Davis apparently went to sleep sometime in the 1950s (when girls were girls and men were...
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