LATHROP – Education is a top priority for parents of students attending Lathrop Elementary School. But so is the safety of their young ones when they are on campus.
All 20 elementary and five comprehensive high school campuses in the Manteca Unified School District will be accepting intradistrict transfer requests for grades 1 through 12, through the Open Enrollment process.
LATHROP - The Chinese cultural invasion Tuesday night at Lathrop High School lasted nearly two hours. The event was met with applause and concluded with an exchange of gifts between the group of young performers from an experimental school affiliated with Beijing Niulanshan and the Manteca Unified School District.
California Assembly members Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto) and Brian Nestande (R-Palm Desert) have introduced an Assembly Constitutional Amendment aimed at stopping the practice of deferring education dollars to pay for other programs and to balance the state budget.
Three young artists in the Manteca Unified School District just got an extension of their proverbial 15 minutes of fame.
It was difficult to spot a lonely heart at Thursday's Valentine Day dance.
It will be a cooler summer this year in the Adult Education Computer Room of the Manteca Unified School District.
Manteca Unified School District has a $345,000 dilemma - or at the least, perhaps just a $15,000 dilemma or just about any amount in between. But as of Tuesday night, the Board of Trustees settled on $45,000 for now.
The Manteca Unified Board of Trustees unanimously approved $86,484 in Measure M funds for the construction of a greenhouse at Weston Ranch High School in French Camp.
Manteca High School did it again. The Buffalo team was awarded second place this week among the top three large schools in the 32nd annual Academic Decathlon Competition, making it the second year in a row that the school received the same honor. It was the same story for Tracy High, which won the top honors in the same category just as it did last year. Manteca High, in fact, brought home a Mother Lode ...
After 15 years as a restaurant owner and American Pie Council Champion many times over, chef Bryan Ehrenholm has gone back to school.
School sites in Manteca Unified will have an opportunity to examine a product called Door Blok as one possible way to promote a safe learning and working environment for students and staff.
Don't throw those old jeans away! Donate them instead and help make a difference in the lives of homeless teen-agers.
WESTON RANCH - After six years at George Komure Elementary School in Weston Ranch, Principal Jo Ella Allen is ready to call it a career. But not without a grand send-off from her staff and the school's 980 students.
The Ripon JROTC drill team has its sights set on hosting a regional championship in March and a return trip to the All Army Nationals.
Manuel Cardenas didn't think that he was ever going to graduate high school.
The Manteca Unified Board of Education during a special meeting on Tuesday approved the reassignment of two school district administrative personnel.
It was a cozy family affair. Loved ones sat in chairs around white-covered round tables with live potted flower plants serving as centerpieces. Lined up against the walls in the back of the airy and spacious room were trays of brunch comestibles and a wide selection of drinks.
For months, Michelle Halla has been collecting and shipping recyclables across the country as part of the Recycling Rumble.
Manteca Unified School District's 2013 graduation season will be ushered in on Friday with three culmination ceremonies scheduled that day.
Don't look for Ripon High to have mandatory drug testing just yet.
It was a culinary test of skills determining who could make the best hamburger that would be taste tempting to the pallets of a school district administrator, a police chief and the chef of a fine dining restaurant.
It takes work to apply for college scholarships.
St. Anthony of Padua School's graduating class of 2013 will be led by four valedictorians – Jordan Barajas, Zachary Hansen, Joseph Poncini, and Monica Yalung. The eighth graders' class salutatorian is Joelle Hylton.
Collin Scholl, East Union High School's Class of 2013 salutatorian, is headed to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo – also known as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo – this fall.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to a survey released Sunday.
Eighth grader Aubreyanna White enjoyed last year's Medieval Faire at Nile Garden School so much she came to the annual event on Friday wearing the same costume she wore last year when her class put on the show.
The Manteca Unified Board of Trustees on Tuesday night approved the allocation of $700,000 from Measure M funds to repair severely deteriorating pavements at East Union High School this summer.
The pristine MUVA Culinary Arts Academy opened its doors to curious juniors from area high schools Tuesday morning with student chefs proudly showing them their accomplishments in their stainless steel kitchen, classroom and small café that will soon be open to the public.
What to do with the empty Lindbergh School building, the brick facility that used to house the Manteca Adult School, some of Manteca Unified ROP classes and other programs, is an issue that will be rehashed for the next several months and, perhaps, for the next few years by the district Board of Education.