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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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CSU Stanislaus receives $250K grant for student research
Anthropology research at California State University, Stanislaus will soon get a technological upgrade thanks to a quarter million dollar grant. CSU Stanislaus was recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support the creation of the Deck Visual Anthropology Lab to equip and fund an undergraduate classroom and research lab. The grant will fund the project for three years, paying for new cameras and accessories, editing workstations, digitizing equipment, ...
Solar lesson puts seniors on roof
LIVINGSTON - A rooftop in Merced County might be the last place you'd think high school students would find an education. But that's where 10 students of the Ceres High School Manufacturing Academy were two days last week, receiving instruction on installing solar panels on the roof of a low-income Livingston homeowners. Ceres High School officials teamed up with Grid Alternatives, a non-profit organization that introduces the benefits of solar technology to low-income communities. ...
Pitman teacher's aide to represent county in state award program
From a very early age, Karen Souza felt a special connection to her fellow students who didn't quite fit in. Souza eventually turned her passion for inclusion into a career as a teacher's aide in special education. She has now been a para-educator at Pitman High School for three years, and was one of five classified employees chosen to represent Stanislaus County in the California School Employee of the Year program. Called ...
Education foundation holds tailgate party to support Kaepernick
A community-wide celebration of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is planned for the day before he makes his debut in the Super Bowl arena. The Turlock Education Foundation is hosting "Turlock Believes," a community tailgate party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 2 at Pitman High School. Kaepernick's performance as the 49ers quarterback and the team's rise to the Super Bowl has inspired the community and the foundation wanted a ...
More cuts for Denair schools
In a special board meeting held Thursday night, the Denair Unified School District continued to process cuts for the 2013-14 school year in an effort to avoid financial insolvency. Denair trustees unanimously voted to give four furlough days to five confidential classified employees, effective Feb. 1, for an estimated $6,184 savings for the district. The district also accepted the resignation of Denair Charter Academy principal, Karla Paul. Paul will be working with ...
Walnut students take fourth in Future City competition
Walnut Elementary students took fourth place in the Future City Competition, held Saturday, with their design for "Garnicia." Modesto Girl Scout Troop #2225 took first place and will be representing Northern California at the National Engineers Week Future City Competition Feb. 15-20 in Washington, D.C. The annual challenge has received national attention and acclaim for its role in encouraging middle schoolers nationwide to develop their interest in science, technology, engineering and math. <p ...
Denair students prepare for Super Bowl of academics
Months of preparation will soon be put to the test as students from Denair High School compete in the 2013 Stanislaus County Academic Decathlon. Hailed as the biggest academic event for local high schools, the decathlon is slated to take place on Feb. 2 in the Gregori High School gymnasium in Modesto. The decathlon is a two-day series of tests, speeches and interviews highlighting this year's theme, Russia. The Academic Decathlon's goal ...
TUSD taking steps to improve school safety
Parents who were outraged at the lack of security at their child's elementary school site in December are now working with the district to create a school safety plan. Turlock resident and local law enforcement officer Vince Hooper, who videotaped himself walking around campus in December at Medeiros Elementary pointing out the lack of security, voiced his safety concerns and his appreciation of steps already taken to trustees at Tuesday's Turlock Unified School ...
Four local school employees receive accolades
A desire to help people succeed in education is the reason Beverly Cullum wakes up every day. Cullum, a typist clerk at Turlock Adult School, will be honored among 28 outstanding classified education employees through Stanislaus County's "Employees Making a Difference" on Tuesday at the Petersen Event Center in Modesto. For Cullum, her job is her passion. Since beginning her tenure at Turlock Adult School in 2004, Cullum goes above and ...
Dutcher students play fair at school, in life
January Character Counts Profile: Fairness Student Feature: Teresita Orozco and Andrea Selkow, Dutcher Middle School Open communication is key to creating fairness, a trait that eighth graders Teresita Orozco and Andrea Selkow exemplify. Both Orozco and Selkow were honored as the district students for the character trait of fairness. Selkow, a 4.0 GPA student, has always played by the rules from an early age. She takes turns in sharing with her ...
Time right to spend on school projects, says TUSD staff
The Turlock Unified School District is moving forward with a list of potential one-time expenditures for the 2013-14 school year, despite uncertainty from a few of its board members. The move to carry on with one-time expenditures made sense to district officials after the passage of Proposition 30 and an increase in TUSD's enrollment for the 2012-13 school year, said district staff. "Based on the passage of Prop. 30 and other events ...
Parents voice concern about school safety
Concern about the safety of school campuses continues to mount nationally and locally as parents hope to avoid shootings like the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and more recently, Taft Union High School in Southern California. Turlock resident Lori Hooper was so dissatisfied with the security at Medeiros Elementary that she pulled her 8-year-old daughter out of school. "There's no fences. There's nobody monitoring. There's nobody watching," she said. ...
Walnut students build city of the future
Across the nation, teams of middle school students are working to imagine, design, and build cities of the future, a task that 6th grade Walnut Magneteers are familiar with. For the third consecutive year, students from Walnut Elementary will participate in the Stanislaus County Future City Competition on Wednesday at the Peterson Event Center in Modesto. The annual challenge has received national attention and acclaim for its role in encouraging middle schoolers ...
More cuts for Denair schools
The Denair Unified School District continues to make cuts in order to avoid a state takeover. During a yet another crowded meeting, school district trustees unanimously voted to cut teachers' salaries by 3.5 percent effective Feb. 1 , while also eliminating four school days and one training day. Over the next 18 months, Denair must cut $1.4 million in ongoing spending in order to avoid a state takeover. "We're back and ...
Local students prepare for Mock Trial
Students from Turlock and Pitman high schools will soon have their day in court. The annual Stanislaus Mock trials will be held on Tuesday at the Stanislaus County Courthouse in Modesto. This year's fictitious case, People v. Vega, is a trial of Adrian Vega, a resident of Hidden Valley and child of the city's mayor. Vega is charged with failure to perform a duty following an accident (commonly referred to as felony ...
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