Officials in Sonoma County’s 40 school districts are sorting through the latest budget wrinkle to come their way — a reversal of a cut to transportation funding but a offsetting decrease in per pupil spending by the state.

On a narrow stretch of Burbank Avenue in Santa Rosa’s Roseland neighborhood, an impressive $28 million elementary school has been under construction since last spring. But plans to open the school in the fall are in jeopardy.

Santa Rosa City Schools took a first step Wednesday toward putting a tax measure before voters in November. While stopping short of agreeing to pay for a consultant to poll voters, the school board asked for more information on how a survey would be conducted and how to proceed with defining what the district would do with more money from a bond measure or parcel tax.

Should Doyle Park Elementary School be closed and replaced with a French charter school? Some teachers and parents expressed concern that the school, which serves a large number of Spanish-speaking students, will be replaced by a French school with predominantly white and affluent students.

Facing $8.3 million in potential cuts in the upcoming school year, Santa Rosa City Schools officials are considering putting a tax measure before voters in November. “We are at a point of almost desperation,” school board member Tad Wakefield said. Would you pay more to fund local schools?

More than 50 parents of Doyle Park Elementary School students filled cafeteria tables Monday and listed the reasons they want the Santa Rosa school district to consider saving their small campus. Declining enrollment and test scores led Santa Rosa school board members to propose closing the kindergarten to sixth-grade school on Sonoma Avenue.

Doyle Park Elementary School has struggled with declining enrollment and has been the focus of closure discussions in the past. But now, circumstances at the school have become a ‘perfect storm,’ prompting officials once again to consider shutting the school, Superintendent Sharon Liddell says.

Sonoma County educators on Wednesday greeted Gov. Jerry Brown’s call for less student testing and quicker results on the remaining tests as a bit of good news for schools that are awash in financial worry. Brown said students are asked to take too many tests, and teachers learn little from them because results are not readily available. What do you think of the governor’s proposal?

Frank Chong started work Wednesday at Santa Rosa Junior College, succeeding Robert Agrella to become the fifth president in the college’s 94-year history. For Chong, the occasion marked a return to campus life after two years as deputy assistant secretary for community colleges in the Obama administration.

The future of 80-student Geyserville High School is at the heart of an ongoing study by the Geyserville School District and Sonoma County Office of Education. The district is considering a variety of options for grades nine through 12.