Over the past few all of us 2011 seniors have been going through our coming of age, the closing chapter in our lives and the beginning of the new saga, Graduation! We all go thorugh eventually and some of use are even blessed with graduating early but graduating is a big…

Last week the Dollars and Sense Team had a guest speaker who spoke to us about what it takes to became a nurse and more specifically a nurse practioner. She told us about her experince at the doctors and how there she decided to go back to school and become a nurse…

On March 29th, We attended the city council meeting on the behalf of ryse in support of Gompers Continuation School dilemmena on the legal that they completed back in october. So what gompers did was raise over $1000 to supply the graffiti artist with their required materials to paint. After…

This past weekend we spent our beautiful sunday afternoon here at ryse attending and helping out with the youth speaks workshop with Jyca a jewish organization that sprouts all through the east bay. The workshop was about Educational Justice and about how we deal with our community and how it…

 I recently read an article about parents complaining about gay curriculum being brought up in elementary schools, this meaning parents not approving of teachers displaying same sex couples on homework assignments. This big controversy is a wide spread through the bay area . I understand where the parents are coming from…

So my supervisor recently had us read an article about the affects of using gender in a "harmful" way in schools. Basically the article adresses the how teachers use boys and girls division in schools and class's, such as alternating Boy-girl sequence seeting in class, as a negative portrayal to young…

These past few months have been alot of work for us seniors that are working on our College stuff to get ready for college, and all though the intial stress of college applications are done, the stress on how to pay for college is still all but there. So to…

So Contra Costa County has been going out there way to measure the fitness of their elementary school students. The thing is certain schools find the testing inadequete and obsolete, and has not been taking place in some schools such as an elementary school in oakley. This is pretty out dated to measure…

 So today my boss Abby made us read this article about the lack of diversity in the science, technology, engineering and math fields, and what really interesting is the way they approach it. They talk about how when we think about scientist how we always mention white male and dead…

 Well yesterday January 27th we went to the civic center plaza and met with author Luis Rodriguez who talk to us about his early life. It was cool to hear actcually give stories and his accounts for what happened to him and go more in depth about the book. Though…