This Week's Rohnert Park Headlines

This week we focused on back to school coverage. From the elementary to the university level — significant changes are underway.

At Sonoma State University, Petaluma Patch editor Karina Ioffee reports that students this year were greeted with. The school is "trying to adjust to the impact of $8.9 million in budget cuts that have already have eliminated classes, frozen faculty pay and increased class sizes," Ioffee writes. And, the university is bracing for further cuts — $2.3 million — due to lower than expected sales and property taxes, expected to come in December.

Credo High, Sonoma County's first public charter high school inspired by a Waldorf Curriculum, opened last week. The school, to populate the vacant Goldridge Elementary campus, actually opened at the former El Camino High. Check out what some of the school's new students have to say in an .

Did your son or daughter start school this week? , he or she may be in it! We got shots from Evergreen Elementary, Rancho, Mountain Shadows Middle School and Tech High. You can also simply upload and share your own photos in the story.

With Rohnert Park's just getting started, some significant changes are already underway. Robert Haley has started tackling districtwide amongst other problems. Check out some of the things he has planned .

Are you having problems getting your child to do his or her homework? Don't miss this easy read from contributor Nick Walden. !

Our most popular read this week was a simple reminder about . 

Also this week, officials reported that state, county and local unemployment is . How has the economy impacted you? Tell us in the comments or send an email to angela.hart@patch.com.

The issue of redevelopment agencies — largely in limbo throughout the state — is a hot topic in Rohnert Park once again. Here, the Community Development Commission, our local redevelopment agency, to the one-time payment required to be made to the state. Find out that and more from our from Tuesday's City Council meeting.

Robert Dennett, Rohnert Park's first director of Public Safety, died this week. . What were your favorite memories of Dennett?