Education Section
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Stadium renovation costs increase The potential costs and benefits of renovating Turlock High’s Joe Debely Stadium was the number one topic of discussion at Tuesday’s Turlock Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting. 
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Outgoing TUSD board members give their take on the election Tuesday night’s Turlock Unified School Board meeting was an emotional one for at least three trustees. Timm LaVelle, Tami Muniz and Felica Renshaw attended their last board meeting as trustees on Tuesday, as they were voted out of office in the Nov. 3 election. At the next meeting, Bob Weaver, Lori Crivelli and Josh Bernard will take their places.
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Pitman student known for his love of agriculture Ethan Alvares can be seen showing his steer with the Pitman FFA or throwing down tackles Friday night for his school’s football team. But what really characterizes Alvares, is his desire to help others, his leadership skills and his sense of humor.
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Top Livermore Lab scientist to speak at CSU Stanislaus John P. Knezovich, science and technology principal directorate at Laurence Livermore National Laboratory, will present a lecture entitled “Carbon Dating: Applications to Forensic Science” at CSU Stanislaus on Wednesday. |
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Student journalists rack up awards Modesto Junior College journalists garnered five awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges of Northern California for work on the Pirates’ Log, their student newspaper. |
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Grant to assist Hispanic education Hispanic education will receive a boost locally, as the U.S. Department of Education awarded a $230,000 grant to CSU Stanislaus. |
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UC Merced uses sun to go green The University of California, Merced welcomed a new 8.5-acre, 1-megawatt solar array this week. Almost 5,000 solar panels will track the sun to provide 20 percent of the campus’ annual electricity needs, rising to two-thirds of the campus’ energy on sunny summer days. |
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CSU Sacramento seeks applicants for government fellowships Four California State University, Sacramento fellowships offer a chance to work as a full-time staff member in the California State Assembly, Senate, Executive Branch or within the California court system. |
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National Guard visits local elementary school Brown Elementary School celebrated Veteran’s Day on Friday with the help of the California Army National Guard who landed a UH60 Black Hawk helicopter right on campus. Along for the demonstration were an LMTV truck and a high mobility multi-wheeled vehicle. All of this was possible with the help of kindergartner Bradley Williams parents’ Major Douglas Williams and Catalina Williams, who are both active in the Army. Each student got to sit in the vehicles ...
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Keyes Elementary breaks ground for new classrooms Third grade students learned a new vocabulary word for the week, “concrete,” as the foundation for the new classroom buildings was being set on Tuesday.
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TUSD pursues funding for sidewalks, safety training Students who walk to school in the Turlock Unified School District could soon be a little bit safer, thanks to the Safe Routes to School program.
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Budget forces CSU enrollment cut despite increase in applications Even as the California State University system receives more applications than ever before, CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed announced Tuesday that ongoing budget cuts will force a 40,000 reduction in students, system-wide, over the next three years. |
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Faculty to hold no confidence vote for university president A question now lies before the more than 300 members of the California State University, Stanislaus general faculty: ‘Do you have confidence in CSU Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani?’ |
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Turlock Christian embraces new online trend in journalism Students in Lynne Thompson’s journalism class at Turlock Christian High School recently took a step into the current media trend, converting their paper and ink TCS Tribune into a news Web site. |
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First place for MJC speech and debate The Modesto Junior College speech and debate team claimed first place among community colleges in the Kevin Towhy Memorial Speech Tournament, held Oct. 23-25 at Diablo Valley College. MJC defeated 14 Northern California community colleges for the honor. |
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Legless CSU Stanislaus student author to celebrate Veterans Day CSU Stanislaus Social Work grad student Derek McGinnis lost his left leg and suffered serious brain and hand injuries, shrapnel wounds, and burns when a suicide bomber attacked his Naval unit in Iraq. From 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the veteran, author, and student will participate in the “Support Our Troops” information table program at CSU Stanislaus, at the “Thank a Veteran” booth in front of the Vasche Library Building. |
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More students want to attend Turlock schools, fewer students are leaving With school district funding dependent upon the number of students attending school, inter-district transfers can be quite troublesome when a large number of students elect to go to school in a town other than where they live. |
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CSU Stanislaus to offer Degree Completion Program in Tracy To help working professionals earn their degrees, CSU Stanislaus will begin a Tracy-based Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program in January 2010, through their College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of Extended Education. |
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Stanislaus seeks applicants for Stockton-based Educational Doctorate Program The California State University, Stanislaus Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership program will soon accept its third cohort of doctoral candidates. Classes will be held at the CSU Stanislaus-Stockton Center, beginning in June 2010. The priority deadline for applications is Feb. 15, 2010. |
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Photography students take their work to a new dimension Kicking back and munching on some popcorn is all Pitman High teacher Will Creighton expected while being entertained recently by a 3-D movie. But the movie had more in store for him and his photography class.
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On track at Keyes Elementary Keyes Elementary School students were running circles Tuesday afternoon, struggling to complete a mile on the newly completed decomposed granite track.
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‘Learning today... Leading tomorrow’ wins slogan contest The Turlock Unified School District Board of Trustees and administration have been touting the benefits of their new strategic plan for months. The only thing missing was a slogan. |
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Halloween on parade Witches and cheerleaders and princesses, oh my! Brown Elementary School students showed off their creative Halloween costumes on Friday putting an end to their Red Ribbon Week celebrating “Hocus Pocus, drugs aren’t my focus!”
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Former Stanislaus Nursing chair enters Hall of Fame Nancy Clark, who served as Chair of the CSU Stanislaus Nursing Department for 29 years until her retirement in 2008, has been named to the Central San Joaquin Valley Nursing Hall of Fame. |
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Stanislaus professor writes on “Hitler’s Ethic” Adolf Hitler’s immorality was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race, according to a new book by CSU Stanislaus History Professor Richard Weikart. |
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CSU Stanislaus grad student secures national scholarship award Aerynn Dighton, a California State University, Stanislaus Master’s candidate in History, was named a “Love of Learning” award recipient by the national academic honor society Phi Kappa Phi. |
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Grand opening scheduled for Merced College academic building An open house will be held at the Allied Health Center, the newest academic building at Merced College, at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 18. The Merced County Chamber of Commerce will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the facility, while faculty and students will lead tours. |
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Elementary students take gardening to a new level Second grader Amelia Boyd’s favorite part of the Julien Elementary Garden Celebration is the taste testing. Along with tasting the variety of plants, she danced to garden songs, learned about nutrition, and studied the process of photosynthesis on Friday.
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Education Notes CSU Stanislaus application deadline nears First-time freshmen that hope to attend California State University, Stanislaus in September 2010 must submit applications by Nov. 30. The deadline comes earlier than in years past due to a CSU system-wide effort to reduce student enrollment. State budget cuts have forced the reduction in students, according to CSU Stanislaus President Ham Shirvani. As new admissions for 2010 winter and spring terms were closed in July due to budget cuts, ... |
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Mt. View gym construction delayed The project to construct a new Mountain View Middle School gym, originally scheduled to open this month, has been beset by delays that will push the project back well into the new year. |
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