About

Welcome to the Sacramento Breeze

If you are a Sacramento-area high school student or and would like to contribute to The SacCounty Breeze, or are a teacher who has students who would like to see their work in ink, please contact Steve O’Donoghue at the  California Scholastic Journalism Initiative, [email protected].

Currently there are 12  area high schools participating in the network. We meet once a month at The Sacramento Bee  (currently on hiatus until the coronavirus emergency ends) for planning and for presentations by professional journalists who work at The Bee.

The SacCounty Breeze is produced by the Sacramento County Office of Education. The copy, photos, art and other contents are written, photographed, drawn or produced by students at Sacramento County public high schools.  Story development is supervised by the journalism advisers at the participating schools.  Professional journalists coach the students and guide their reporting and writing. Staff members of the Sacramento Bee instruct participating students in professional journalism standards and practices.

SacCounty Breeze is a product of the collaboration of philanthropist The Sacramento County Office of Education, the Sacramento Bee, and the California Scholastic Journalism Initiative.

All opinions expressed in SacCounty Breeze are the views of the student authors and do not represent the opinion of the Sacramento Bee,  any school, district or county educational authority, or the California Scholastic Journalism Initiative.

SacCounty Breeze is a product of student journalists and is guided by the tenets of The First Amendment, the ethics guidelines of the Society of Professional Journalists and the rights and responsibilities enunciated in California Education Code sections 48907 and 48950.

Faculty Advisers

Leanne Linares, Cordova High School

Kelly Wilkerson, Davis High School

Steve Dommer, Foothill High School

Daniel Watts, Gerber Junior/Senior High School

Ricky Karicas, Elinor Hickey High School

Peter Vidovich, Hiram Johnson High School

Brian Gleason, John F. Kennedy High School

Kimberly Kim, Kit Carson International Academy

Samantha Archuleta, McClatchy High School

Michael Mahoney, Rio Americano High School

Aland Hoermann, River City High School

Facilitators

Matt Perry
Assistant Superintendent
ROP & Court/Community
School Programs
Sacramento County Office of Education

Tim Herrera
Communications Director
Sacramento County Office of Education

Lauren Gustus
Sacramento Bee Editor
Regional Editor, McClatchy
West Region

Steve O’Donoghue
California Scholastic Journalism Initiative
Coordinator

Bruce Koon
Writing Coach

Student Editors

Antoinette Aho, Cordova High School

Maria Milligan, Foothill High School

Yareli Perez, Foothill High School

Jessica Shepard, Rio Americano High School

Devin Freeman-Robinson, C. K. McClatchy High School

Colin Kem, River City High School

Ace Hagstrom, Kit Carson High School

Frances Guyot, Kennedy High School