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Turlock’s Texas Ranger talks with students about priorities
Local baseball player Tom Mendonca has a lesson to teach about priorities. This Turlock High School graduate went on to win the College World Series with the Fresno State Bulldogs. He was also named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player and he won the Joe Kearney Award in 2009, which recognized him as the top male athlete in the Western Athletic Conference. After all of his success, however, he says that baseball is not his top priority.
Conflict of interest forces new TUSD trustee to resign
Turlock Unified School District Trustee Lori Crivelli resigned her seat on with only one meeting under her belt on Wednesday due to a potential conflict of interest.
Turlock students come up short in Mock Trials
Turlock and Pitman high students spent the last three months learning how the court system works with the hope that their understanding could be turned into winning prosecution and defense teams. While their arguments were compelling, in the end, they were left with no appeal to move on in the Stanislaus County Mock Trials event.
TUSD starts off the new year with fresh perspectives
Three new trustees were sworn into office at the Turlock Unified School District Board meeting on Tuesday, ushering in a new era in district leadership.
CSUS students and faculty stage multiple rallies against recent cuts
California State University, Stanislaus students staged a massive walkout Wednesday morning to protest the loss of Winter Term, cuts to classes and professors, and what many termed as the "poor leadership" of President Hamid Shirvani.
Anti-Debely coalition voice legal concerns
Despite the threat of potential litigation at Tuesday's Turlock Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting, the board moved forward with the master plan of the Joe Debely Stadium renovations with some additional add-ons for a cost of about $3.6 million.
Bullies beware: TUSD is out to stop you
Spring is the time of year for flowers to bloom and Mother Nature to come out of hibernation, but it is also the time when bullying incidents spring up the most.
Universities strive to end graduation gap for low-income and minority students
Minority and low-income students have historically had a harder path to and through college, but a new nationwide initiative looks to close that achievement gap.
UC Merced application deadline now Dec. 15
The University of California, Merced, pushed back the deadline for Fall 2010 applications for the second time in as many days.
Earl students take a step toward physical fitness
Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, passersby can see Dennis Earl Elementary students working on their fitness by walking about a mile before class starts. Their inspiration: Colored feet charms to add to their stylish necklaces.
Local students hone their NFL skills
The lawn outside Walnut Elementary Education Center was transformed into a mini National Football League training camp this past September for 120 students who were looking to put their best punt, pass and kick forward.
Walnut Elementary earns top four in state H1N1 video contest
Sneeze into a tissue, cough into your sleeve, wash your hands, sanitize. These health-minded words along, with the catchy tune that accompany them, have been stuck in the heads of Walnut Elementary School students since they started making their H1N1 public service announcement for the California Department of Public Health.
California steps up competition for education grant
Education cuts are coming at state governments left and right leaving local school districts with little to nothing to teach the students of the future. No one has much money and the students of America are suffering.
Academic Senate censures CSU Stanislaus interim provost
The California State University, Stanislaus Academic Senate voted Tuesday to formally censure Interim Provost Herman Lujan for "intemperate remarks" made in a Nov. 4 letter to the editor, published in the Turlock Journal.
Faculty has ‘no confidence’ in CSU Stanislaus president
The votes have been tallied and the results are in: the General Faculty of California State University, Stanislaus voted overwhelmingly Friday to express no confidence in the performance and leadership of CSU Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani.
Articles by Section - Education
Stanislaus administration, faculty strife focus of accreditation team visit
A special follow-up visit from a collegiate accreditation firm found California State University, Stanislaus has made significant progress addressing leadership, program review, and learning assessment issues which arose during the accreditation process, according to those present at the visit team's exit meeting on Nov. 8. But some faculty members say the university hasn't gone far enough in addressing what they considered the most serious concern – a hostile relationship between CSU Stanislaus faculty ...
California Postsecondary Education Commission to close doors
The California Postsecondary Education Commission, the state's independent agency for higher education policy planning, research and analysis, will close its doors on Friday. The commission's funding for 2011-12 was eliminated by Governor Jerry Brown in a line item budget veto on June 30.
Turlock High prepares special needs students for careers
In today's economy it can be tough for a young high school graduate to find work - especially if they are saddled with a learning disability or have special needs. In many cases these students will simply turn 18 and begin collecting Supplemental Security Income, also known as SSI. But a 15-year-old program at Turlock High School is breaking the cycle of relying on the government - and giving them the skills to ...
Keyes Union School District names new superintendent
Keyes Union School District superintendent Karen Poppen will retire on June 30, 2012, and current principal of Keyes Elementary, Cynthia Schaefer, will take her place.
Brown Elementary students have respect
Monica and Brenda Reyes are 11-year-old twins at Brown Elementary in Turlock. Like many twins they share common interests and they both enjoy each other's company (most of the time). Both girls also share one very important character trait: Respect. In fact their level of respect for others extends even into their own relationship. When it came time to decide if they should run against each other for student body president Monica bowed ...
Denair Charter students show ‘Love in Action’
The Denair Charter Academy's Love in Action service club held its first school-wide event on Thursday. Students sewed 100 draw-string bags, organized and placed school supplies in each bag and prepared them for shipment to the Mennonite Central Committee with an ultimate destination for under-privileged children in Third World and poverty stricken countries. School supplies in the bags included four spiral bound notebooks, a ruler, erasers, a box of colored pencils and ...
A cultural experience
Crowell Elementary shows respect for students' cultures. Crowell second grader Brent Yazzie and his brother Nolan (a first grader) performed a Navajo and Apache traditional Grass Dance on Thursday while hundreds of students in the background raise their hands for the privilege of dancing with him. The brothers were joined by their father Chilito for the dancing event.
Turlocker wins big at National FFA Convention
Dominic Agresti-Assali, a member of the Turlock High FFA Chapter, was one of four national finalists in the Agricultural Mechanics Design and Fabrication and Proficiency competition at the 84th National FFA Convention last month in Indianapolis. Proficiency awards recognize FFA members who excelled as agricultural entrepreneurs, employees or volunteers while they gained hands-on career experience. The category is one of 47 FFA proficiency categories offered at local, state and national levels. Agresti-Assali ...
University faculty protest unpaid salaries, executive pay increases
The California State University Office of the Chancellor isn't negotiating labor contracts in good faith, claims the CSU faculty union, but the Chancellor's Office says there isn't enough money to meet faculty demands. California State University, Stanislaus faculty joined colleagues in a statewide protest against the CSU's bargaining tactics Tuesday, which some other campuses will engage in today. "On Nov. 8 and 9, the California State University faculty will send a strong ...
Carnegie Arts Center receives donation to links arts with curriculum
Fourth grade students from Katie Bruley's class at Sacred Heart School in Turlock were able to get greater insight into their lessons on California history and nature conservation during a visit to the Carnegie Arts Center and its Ansel Adams exhibit. Adams' iconic photographs of California - and especially Yosemite National Park - have long been a part of the state's conservation movement. The students were able to visit the arts center due ...
Turlockers spell V-I-C-T-O-R-Y
The top two finishers at the 2011-12 Stanislaus County Elementary Spelling Championship, held Wednesday at Gregori High School in Modesto, hailed from Turlock Unified District Schools, fifth grader Joven Hundal goes to Julien and sixth grader Avery Owen attends Walnut. Terry Tek was the third place finisher and he attends Agnes Baptist in Modesto. Hundal and Owen will represent Stanislaus County at the State Championship at the San Joaquin Office of Education in ...
Hilmar FFA teams represent California at national competition
The Hilmar FFA Dairy Cattle and Dairy Foods judging teams represented California at the National FFA contests this October in Indianapolis, Ind. The national contests were held in conjunction with the annual National FFA Convention. The Dairy Cattle Judging team placed fourth overall in the nation with 42 states competing and 166 contestants. The four members and their individual placings were: Randy Edwards – 10th, Brian Lopes – 12th, Clinton Lundell – 30th ...
CSU Stanislaus awards Rogers Scholars
California State University, Stanislaus this week awarded 25 students as Mary Stuart Rogers Scholars. The annual scholarship recognizes students who have overcome challenges to excel academically. Since the program's 1991 founding, more than $2.5 million in scholarships have been awarded to more than 400 CSU Stanislaus students. Each of the 15 undergraduate recipients was awarded $3,000, while each of the 10 teaching credential program recipients was awarded $3,500. This year's undergraduate ...
UC Merced professor designs HIV inhibitor
University of California, Merced professor Patricia LiWang has designed what may be the most effective chemical inhibitor against human immunodeficiency virus infection, the university announced this week. LiWang's discovery combines two existing drugs to work between several times and several hundred times more effectively than existing inhibitors, depending on the strain of HIV. The new inhibitor blocks HIV from entering a cell at two different steps of viral entry, an approach among ...
Love and Logic alive in Hilmar
As every parent knows, there is no instruction booklet for parenting. The Hilmar Unified School District, however, has been helping local residents be better parents through its Love and Logic program. Love and Logic is a philosophy founded by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, who had over 75 years of working with and raising children. The philosophy has been taught for over a decade in Hilmar by Bruce Reisdorph, a licensed marriage, ...
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