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Schools step up efforts to help autistic students

One in 88 children will be diagnosed with autism. For boys, that number drops down to one in 54. And whether it's a better understanding of the autism spectrum, how to properly recognize and diagnose the disorder or environmental factors that are leading organizations like the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to reexamine its numbers – or a combination of the three – the ratios certainly aren't sliding in the direction that experts would ...

April 10, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Education


SJCOE Foundation holds science camp fundraiser

With as little as a $5 donation, you can help send a middle school San Joaquin County of Education fifth and sixth grader to a memorable Outdoor Education experience, formerly known as Science Camp.

April 10, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


Evening of the Arts taking place tonight at Sierra High

There are plenty of artistic things to see and hear, not to mention refreshments, tonight at Sierra High School.

April 09, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


POLICE ON PLAYGROUNDS

Children have bonded with two Manteca Police officers that have been assigned to circulate among the 15 elementary schools in the district on a daily basis.

April 06, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | Education


PLANET PARTY DAY

Neither rain nor gloomy gray skies on Thursday dampened the enthusiasm of the nearly 2,000 Manteca Unified sixth graders who attended the annual Planet Party Day at the Manteca Unified School District office campus on West Louise Avenue.

April 05, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


Canadians, Buffs make beautiful music together

Band students from the Reynolds Secondary School in Canada can thank social media for Thursday's hookup in Manteca.

April 05, 2013 | Vince Rembulat | Education


Planet Party trailer display teaches water, energy conservation at home

Charity begins at home, so the saying goes. It's also where lessons about being green begins, with those little steps serving as the beginning of long-range and lifelong energy-saving practices that will impact generations to come.

April 04, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


State-of-the-art gym at county education complex

The new National Collegiate Athletic Association gym at the San Joaquin County Office of Education's Excel Academy on Arch Road north of Manteca had plenty of local ties.

April 03, 2013 | Vince Rembulat | Education


Lathrop High School evening of the arts will showcase students’ talents talents

LATHROP – It's being called the Spartan Arts Invasion. It's free and it's open to the public.

April 02, 2013 | | Education


KIDS SUFFER AGAIN

All that remains of the preschool playground at George McFall School is a small pile of twisted metal and a sprawling pile of plastic ash.

March 29, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Education


Lathrop theatre group staging ‘Guys & Dolls’

LATHROP – The hustle and bustle of the big city with small-time gamblers and band members of the Save-a-Soul Mission is the part of the opening scene for Lathrop High School Advance Theatre production, "Guys and Dolls."

March 29, 2013 | Vince Rembulat | Education


‘DEN’ IS DONE

Larry Lousen lives and plays in Southern California, but his work breaths life onto the campuses of local high schools.

March 27, 2013 | James Burns | Education


Some schools receiving spring-break spruce-up

Manteca High School tennis teams will be able to use the campus tennis courts again after the spring break.

March 27, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


SIMPLY MEDIEVAL

Mary Ann Tolbert nearly had to call off this year's Medieval Day. She mentioned that possibility to her seventh-grade students at St. Anthony School only to be met by disappointment. "They really wanted to do it this year," said Tolbert, who said the exercise is part of the junior high curriculum for European Medieval history. Fortunately, Medieval Day went on as planned. As a culmination of their weeklong studies, the seventh-grade students, who were also ...

March 26, 2013 | Vince Rembulat | Education


6th graders learn about being green at Planet Party

There will be one group of sixth graders that will not be riding the school bus to the annual Planet Party on Thursday, April 4, at the Manteca Unified Office campus.

March 26, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


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French Camp graduate Alvin Vang: Perfect attendance, perfect grades

Alvin Vang's black gown was heavier than most.

May 22, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Education


Joshua Cowell 8th graders complete elementary career; high school next

Tuesday afternoon was bittersweet for Britney Szeto.

May 22, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Education


McPARLAND AT 25

No one really leaves McParland School.

May 21, 2013 | Vince Rembulat | Education


Cambalache provides English learners with voice

For years, Janet Sanders has shared her classroom with frustration, confusion and anger.

May 21, 2013 | James Burns | Education


‘THANK YOU CALLA’

Manuel Cardenas didn't think that he was ever going to graduate high school.

May 18, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Education


New principals for both New Vision High, Lincoln

The Manteca Unified Board of Education during a special meeting on Tuesday approved the reassignment of two school district administrative personnel.

May 18, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


21 Manteca Adult School graduates receive diplomas

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.

May 18, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


Manteca High wins national Recycling Rumble contest

For months, Michelle Halla has been collecting and shipping recyclables across the country as part of the Recycling Rumble.

May 17, 2013 | James Burns | Education


Three ceremonies start graduation season Friday

Manteca Unified School District's 2013 graduation season will be ushered in on Friday with three culmination ceremonies scheduled that day.

May 16, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


Trustees say no to drug tests

Don't look for Ripon High to have mandatory drug testing just yet.

May 15, 2013 | Vince Rembulat | Education


THE P&J BURGER TEST

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.

May 15, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | Education


Lathrop senior receives $60K a year Gates scholarship

It takes work to apply for college scholarships.

May 15, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Education


St. Anthony of Padua School graduation set for May 29

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.

May 15, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


Lancers’ salutatorian looking forward to Cal Poly

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.

May 14, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | Education


Ex-Penn St head was top paid $2.9M

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.

May 12, 2013 | | Education


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