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