Each time Coco Peri’s car rounds the bend on Highway 1 and the Stinson Beach School comes into view, her 2-year-old son, Nico, presses his face to the glass and asks, “Am I going there?”

At last Thursday’s school board meeting, Ms. Peri, a Stinson Beach resident, posed the same question to district officials. “Can I tell him yes?” she asked. “Is this happening in August?” 

The answer, at last, was yes.

After months of handwringing…