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Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools is still looking for a home after a petition to move the controversial Sacramento-based adult charter school under the authorization of Yuba City Unified was denied by its board Tuesday night.

Now, it will look to the Sutter County Office of Education for oversight.

If approved, the charter school will be renamed the California Learning Academy, and will be primarily nonclassroom-based with onsite classrooms for career technical education and English learners.

“It would give our students flexibility to be synchronous, asynchronous or to do independent study,” said Jonathan Raymond, executive director of Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools Thursday. “It’s also modeled after best practices around the country for charters that are serving adults.”

The charter school opened in 2014 with the aim of helping adult students, many formerly incarcerated or new immigrants, to earn a diploma, improve English language skills or learn a trade. Within a decade, it was serving 13,700 students at 50 sites statewide.

The charter currently operates Highlands Community Charter School, a classroom-based school, and California Innovative Academy, a nonclassroom-based school in about a dozen locations across the Sacramento region.

The charter school has been the subject of a state audit, multiple investigations and critical news reports since shortly after it opened. The audit found former school leaders had improperly collected $180 million in public funding and violated several education rules.

The charter school began looking for a new home after the Twin Rivers Unified school board revoked its charter in January. In May, the Sacramento County Office of Education reversed that Twin Rivers Unified decision.

Despite that, the charter school’s new leadership decided to look for a new home, citing a strained relationship with Twin Rivers Unified.

“We are looking for a new partner to work with proactively, positively, to learn and work together,” Raymond said. “That relationship with Twin Rivers is just no longer there.”

Highlands Community Charter plans to appeal the Yuba City denial of its charter to the Sutter County Office of Education next week, Raymond said. Its board could deny the appeal or take over authorization of the charter itself.

Because approval of the new petition could take 90 days, both Highlands Community Charter and the California Innovative Academy will begin the school year on Aug. 10 under the oversight of Twin Rivers Unified.

If the petition is later approved by the Sutter County Office of Education, it would allow the Sacramento-area school sites to remain open. They would also become California Learning Academy schools.

The Sutter County Office of Education currently authorizes four charter schools — Feather River Academy, Aero Stem, Sutter Peak Charter Academy and Twin Rivers Charter School.

Highlands Community Charter leaders have met with residents, educators, workforce partners and civic leaders over the past several weeks, and have found strong interest in their school, Raymond said. There are also several prospects for new school sites, he said.

A move to Sutter County will allow the school to expand access to tuition-free diploma pathways, career training, multilingual support and workforce-connected education, Raymond said.

The move would also allow the school to continue to serve students, many who have moved to Sutter County seeking jobs and affordable places to live, Raymond said.

“So, we’re in some ways following our students and meeting an unmet demand in the community,” Raymond said.

People in the community have been watching the new Netflix comedy series “The Hawk” starring Will Ferrell – and getting a complete surprise when Ferrell says he’s from Yuba City.

“Three-time majors winner; former world number one from Yuba City, California: Lonnie Hawkins checking in,” Ferrell’s character says while introducing himself at a golf resort.

The show is about an aging golfer who was at his peak in 2004. In its story, Hawkins is going against the advice of his ex-wife (Molly Shannon) Stacy and son (Jimmy Tatro) and swinging his way back into the tournament circuit.

“On the back nine of his career, golf legend Lonnie ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins chases one final major — and drags everyone he loves into the chaos,” Netflix says in its preview material.

Other actors featured in the show are Fortune Feimster, Luke Wilson, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, Katelyn Tarver, Gabriel Hogan and Aida Osman.

Netflix released all 10 episodes of “The Hawk” on July 16, and since then locals have been discovering their hometown’s mention and sharing their surprise on social media.

Why the show’s writers chose Yuba City is elusive. Ferrell, who was born in Irvine, created the first episode with writers Harper Steele who grew up in Iowa City, and Chris Henchy, a New York City native who was raised in Augusta, Ga.

There’s some speculation and rumors that Ferrell lived here briefly, or that the city was chosen because it is a rural agricultural town, the quintessential opposite of Hollywood. But nothing has been substantiated.

Jack Carrerow, an Oroville resident and sitcom writer with credits going back to the 1980s (“Bosom Buddies,” “Mr. Belvedere”) – and, in full disclosure, is married to the author of this piece – said that he could think of two reasons why writers made Ferrell’s character native to Yuba City.

“The name ‘Yuba City’ is funny,” Jack said. “It’s got a funny sound to it.”

Jack compared it to how Ted Knight’s character in the Mary Tyler Moore show came from a 500-watt radio station in “Fresno.”

The other reason is because of the rustic aspects of the area.

“They probably used it to ground the guy,” Jack mused. “It’s not Carmel or Pebble Beach.”

In actuality, none of the locations used in episodes of “The Hawk” are remotely close to Sutter County.

Southern California was the “creative heart” of the project, according to the entertainment website Netflix Junkie.

“Los Angeles served as the production headquarters for “The Hawk,” with California investing a hefty $17.1 million tax credit to keep the series rooted in the state,” the site reported.

Other locations were The Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach, Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, Palm Beach Gardens, and Las Vegas, according to IMDB.

Reviews of the show vary, with some not liking the shallowness or crudeness of the characters, and others seeing past it.

“Ferrell’s character is over-the-top until you dig a bit deeper and realize it’s actually a brilliant portrayal of someone you’d probably despise in real life, but can’t help but love on screen,” said Ben Olson of The Reader.

“And there’s no angle to any of the characters, no approach that says ‘Here’s why these people are funny.’ Lonnie is a Ferrell-ian blend of narcissism and good-natured childishness, but of the wishy-washiest type,” wrote Daniel Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter.

But, will this unsolicited fame help the Mid-Valley at all?

As far as the area getting any benefit from the show having ties with Yuba City, Brynda Stranix, managing director of Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce said she didn’t think so.

“The only thing that I think I would say is I’ve seen the clip on Facebook,” Stranix said, adding that she saw some comments circulating, too.

“But it’s just a sampling of people,” she observed.

Stranix noted she hasn’t seen a full episode and didn’t feel she could make any determination yet.

“I don’t know if it’s going to gain any traction,” she said. “Maybe we’ll get more information as it goes along.”

There has been a lot of local conversation—some of it in person rather than over the internet—about the decision by the writers of a new Netflix series to create a main character for a TV show about a YUBA CITY, California native. ‘THE HAWK’ is currently the most popular TV show in the United States on Netflix, and ninth most popular show in the world, garnering 4.8 million views in its first week. It stars WILL FERRELL as LONNIE HAWKINS, a one-time world champion professional golfer from, as it was announced in the show’s initial episode, and repeated several times throughout the 10 episodes, Yuba City. As The Appeal-Democrat reported Friday, the series about the attempt by Hawkins to return to the PROFESSIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION tour after a seven-year hiatus, and to navigate the disaster that is his personal life, dropped in mid-July.

The conversation surrounds the question of whether the choice of a hometown for the dubious hero of this golf comedy was an intentional slight because the character is a walking disaster, or an innocent choice intended to highlight the humble background of the character. Some websites suggest the choice of Yuba City as the hometown and the frequency it is mentioned is a “running gag”, while other sites suggest a small town was chosen simply to further deglamorize the character. Some social media commentators argue that it is because RAND MCNALLY, the map maker, twice declared Yuba City the worst city in America to live in back in the 1980s and 1990s. (The company actually ranked the YUBA CITY STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA, which is comprised of all of Sutter and Yuba counties, last of more than 300 such SMSAs in the country based on its own criteria. The negative publicity caused LON SIMMONS, the Hall of Fame broadcaster for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s, who got his start at Yuba City’s KUBA radio station, to declare Yuba City as a much better location than Pittsburgh, which finished first in the rankings.)

Others declared the Lonnie Hawkins character had finally “put Yuba City on the map.” “Let us have this moment,” one local Realtor pleaded online to naysayers.

We should take a moment to enjoy the laugh and not sweat the why. The Lonnie Hawkins character tells the story in an early episode about how he learned the game of golf: his mother would give him the money to play at the local public golf course every day so she could entertain a variety of men. There is, of course, no public golf course in Yuba City. Even the former nine-hole course of Yuba City is gone, along with the miniature course. The two nearest golf courses are in Linda and Arboga, in south Yuba County. The 1970s produced two professional golfers from this region, PAT MCGOWAN of Colusa and ALICE MILLER of Marysville. So far, Yuba City has not produced a PGA of LPGA tour player.

Yuba City has produced some real people who could be considered as having “put Yuba City on the map,” including in recent times YUBA CITY HIGH SCHOOL baseball player MAX STASSI, who hit 41 home runs over nine seasons with the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Angels. Stassi got a tremendous amount of TV camera time as a catcher, and caught baseball sensation SHOHEI OHTANI before his playing career ended. You can still see him from time to time on Angels TV broadcasts because he is a coach for the Angels. LEANNE MARSHALL of Yuba City won season 5 of PROJECT RUNWAY. Grammy nominated dance choreographer RYAN HEFFINGTON is from Yuba City, as is ADRIAN MOLINA, who directed Pixar’s movie ‘Coco’ in 2017, which generated $823 million worldwide and won two Academy Awards.

CHARLOTTE STEWART, who played MISS BEADLE on ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ and was a regular cast member of TWIN PEAKS, grew up in Yuba City. TYLER RICH, the country western singer/songwriter and children’s book author, a frequent performer at The Grand Ole Opry, is a Yuba City native. FESTUS EZELI moved from Nigeria to Yuba City and began a basketball career at Yuba College that led him to the Golden State Warriors during a championship run. RON PORTER, who played seven seasons as a linebacker in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, and won a championship with the Baltimore Colts in 1968, was a 1963 graduate of Yuba City High School. PATRICK E. MATLOCK, a United States Army Lieutenant General who commanded the 1st Armored Division, is from Yuba City. Actor KEVIN BIGLEY, who has appeared as a recurring character in several TV shows and did voice work on the ‘ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE,’ is a Yuba City native.

MARCIE DODD is a Yuba City native who performed as Elphaba in a touring production of the Broadway smash hit, ‘Wicked.’ JESUS DIEGO ‘JAY DEE’ OREJEL is a Yuba City native and member of an American regional Mexican band from Yuba City called Herencia de Patrones, and he starred in the movie CLIKA, which discussed his origin story of picking peaches here.

Perhaps the most famous Yuba City native no one seems to acknowledge is JOHN JOSEPH MONTGOMERY, who built and flew an airplane 20 years before Orville and Wilbur Wright. Has anyone seen a statue of him? He was born here in 1858. Now he’s someone who could put Yuba City on the map, if local leaders wrapped their heads around his achievements.

The Will Ferrell character is a bemusement. Plenty of people from Yuba City have achieved success in the wider world. Yuba City didn’t need a Netflix show, popular or not, to give it credibility. And if the show’s writers think the city is a joke, well, that’s their misunderstanding.