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TUSD trustees approve budget, await further state cuts
After months of slashing expenses, negotiating new contracts, and cutting services and programs, the Turlock Unified School District finally has a budget for the 2009-10 school year ... at least for a few weeks.
Retiring teachers honored, voice their appreciation for district
Marsha Memmott has spent the last 30 years teaching English to Turlock eighth graders. She has spent 30 years correcting grammar, grading essays, and explaining when to use "who" and when to use "whom." After all of those years of dedication to Turlock students and their education, Memmott is retiring from her job at Turlock Junior High School.
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Turlock Adult School introduces new medical field certification classes
The Turlock Unified School District Board of Trustees approved a contract with Boston Reed College to offer certification courses next semester in Electronic Health Records System Technologist and EKG Technician through the TUSD Adult School. The Health Records Tech class will be online based and the EKG Tech class will be classroom based. Adult School Principal Alice Pollard said the courses were selected for curriculum incorporation based on a needs assessment from ...
Osborn Two-Way Immersion Academy honored with Golden Bell
The Osborn Two-Way Immersion Academy was honored last Saturday at the 32nd Annual Golden Bell Awards program of the California School Board Association. According to CSBA, the Golden Bell Award "promotes excellence in education by recognizing outstanding programs." "It is an honor to be recognized by the CSBA. This is the result of a lot of hard work, planning, effort and talent of our teachers who not only have to teach in ...
Ag in Motion comes to Denair
The National Science Center's Ag-In-Motion truck visited DMS on Wednesday. Ag in Motion is a 53-foot state-of-the-art trailer converted to a lab classroom. The lab gives students the opportunity to learn about agriculture related career opportunities through instruction based on seventh-grade science curriculum for California schools. The mobile classroom experience features 20 laboratory stations, complete with microscopes and lesson plans. Labs are taught by a certified seventh-grade science teacher and classes can range ...
Future teachers get hands-on experience with Science Night
Future bilingual K-8 teachers in the credential program at California State University, Stanislaus teamed up to offer Science Night at Osborn Two-Way Immersion Academy on Thursday. Science Night is the culmination of six weeks of collaboration with first-year credential CSU students and elementary students at Osborn, who attend extra-curricular science and health classes' one-night a week over the course of the program. The CSUS students attend seven weeks of class-based instruction in ...
Denair teacher earns professional accolades
Rachel Watts received the highest honor any teacher could earn - and it came from a simple student letter about her efforts. Leonel Gutierrez, one of Watts' students, had been struggling for years with his vocabulary but he praised Watts for her role in his improving grade. He wrote "I had bad grades but she has made a difference for me and has made learning vocabulary easier." <p style="margin: 0in 0in ...
Top spellers earn accolades
Mountain View eighth grader Samuel Kaminski and Denair Middle School seventh grader Zach Ramaley each earned silver medal honors at the Stanislaus County Office of Education Junior High Spelling Championship held Nov. 17 in Modesto. Jocelyn Ramirez, a seventh grader at Mountain View earned a gold medal for her spelling prowess. She placed 14 out of 44 students. Some of the words spelled at the spelling bee were neurasthenia, panacea and osmosis.
Charter schools growing statewide
California charter public schools grew significantly this 2011-12 school year, opening at high numbers statewide, and serving more students and families in both urban and rural areas, according to data released by the California Charter Schools Association. This school year, 100 new charter schools opened their doors across the state, while enrollment surged by more than 13 percent, from 364,024 students in 2010-11 to over 412,000 students. This growth brings the total number ...
UC Merced chancellor issues statement on protests
In response to police crackdowns on student protests across the University of California system– in particular, an incident where peaceful protestors were pepper sprayed at UC Davis – UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland issued the following statement this week: "Free speech and nonviolent protest have an honored place in American society and on college and university campuses. In light of recent incidents on several sister University of California campuses, I met last week ...
MJC presidential search down to four finalists
The search to replace former Modesto Junior College President Gaither Loewenstein has narrowed to just four candidates, with open forums scheduled for Dec. 5-8 in advance of a final decision. The finalists are: Edward C Bush, Vice-President, Student Services, Riverside City College; Karen Walters Dunlap, Vice-President of Instruction, MJC; Dale Paul Parnell Jr., Vice President of Academic Affairs, Rio Hondo College; and, Pamela D. Walker, Vice President, Student Services, American River College. Dunlap ...
Spelling champs
Turlock Junior High School seventh grader Allison Behrens finished sixth overall out of 44 participants at the Stanislaus County Office of Education Junior High Spelling Championship held last Thursday in Modesto. Behrens was a gold medal winner and TJHS eighth grader Colby McCann took home a silver medal. Some of the words spelled from the spelling bee were neurasthenia, panacea and osmosis.
Dinner is served
The Stanislaus Military Academy at John B. Allard School in Turlock held a Thanksgiving feast on campus Tuesday - complete with pineapple and bacon turkey. Administration said it was held to promote a family atmosphere amongst cadets, teachers and staff.
Local second graders get up close with season’s favorite bird
Students in Mr. Munoz's second grade class will have a much better understanding of their Thanksgiving turkey this year, thanks to a class field trip to Wellsford Ranch in Modesto. The class from Sisk Elementary School had the unique opportunity to tour a Foster Farms turkey ranch on Thursday. Wellsford Ranch raised the presidential turkeys last year, which were pardoned by President Barak Obama at the Whitehouse Thanksgiving celebration. The turkey and his ...
CSU tuition increases … again
California State University students can expect another, 9 percent tuition increase beginning fall 2012, following a 9-6 vote by CSU trustees behind closed doors on Wednesday. "While there is still so much uncertainty in the state's fiscal condition, we wanted to provide students and parents with as much notice as possible that tuition will go up in the fall," said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed. "That said, we must all work with state ...
Fresno Pacific opens doors in Merced
Valley residents who seek higher education now have another option in the growing list of opportunities in the area. Fresno Pacific University, a private, Christian institution, has established a satellite campus in Merced that currently offers an accelerated, 18-month degree completion program in childhood development. Major offerings will expand in February and March to include liberal arts and business with an emphasis in organizational leadership. Enrolled students are only required to attend ...
Punjabi Student of the Month
Amanjot Bains Amanjot is a seventh grader at Turlock Junior High School. In the month of October she received perfect scores in attendance, punctuality, homework, behavior and projects at the Punjabi School located at the Turlock Sikh Temple.
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