Manteca Unified School District’s graduating seniors are not the only ones exiting the portals of their schools this month to get to the next chapter of their lives.

Thirteen longtime employees with the Manteca Unified School District are set to retire at the end of the school year. These retiring staff members are certificated district workers.

Their impending retirements at the end of the 2011-12 school year were approved by the Board of Trustees at their May 8 meeting. Among the retirees is George McParland Elementary School Vice Principal Michael Hedin.

The rest include five high school teachers, a junior high teacher, a teacher at Manteca Adult School, and six elementary school teachers.

Below is the list of certificate employees in the district who are retiring at the end of the month:

Paulette Bogetti, Sierra High School; Linda Dizon, Calla High School; Carol Gant, ESL teacher at Manteca Adult School; Vanessa Knepp of Manteca High; Karen Odell of Joshua Cowell Elementary; Patricia Rachels of Shasta Elementary; Rita Rodriguez of Great Valley School in Weston Ranch, Laurie Sisneroz of George Komure School in Weston Ranch; Anne Talcott of East Union High; and, Pauline Taylor, a chemistry teacher at Manteca High.