Shasta School brings back career day event

It's been years since Shasta School held a Career Day.

Manteca schools cut $31M in 2009

Financially, 2009 was a tough year for school districts throughout California.

GOLDEN WEST CHARACTER COUNTS

Manteca bucks trend, grows

Manteca Unified enrollment is up 144 students.

MUSD open enrollment for its five high schools

Manteca Unified School District currently has five comprehensive high schools.

DECEMBER PANTHER PRIDE

The Nile Garden's Panther Pride Award winners for the month of December are based on citizenship and academic achievement.

Manteca replacing four aging buses

Manteca Unified will be adding smaller buses.

Next cuts could cut to ‘the bone’

Expenses are going to increase next fiscal year for Manteca Unified by upwards of $4.5 million.

PG&E awards $10K Bright Idea grant to Manteca high School

Pacific Gas and Electric Company has announced that 14 schools including Manteca High within the company's service area have been selected to receive up to $10,000 each in Bright Ideas grants.

MUSD open enrollment for its five high schools in January

Manteca Unified School District currently has five comprehensive high schools.

Cowell School honors All Stars for December

Joshua Cowell School has recognized students for being December All Stars based on academic effort and citizenship.

Ripon Schools get some relief to tune of $404K

RIPON - Ripon schools are being allowed to put a Band-Aid on the troubled budget in the amount of nearly $404,000, it was learned Monday night.

Stella Brockman students offer advice to president

As part of the Character Counts program, students at Stella Brockman Elementary School in Manteca wrote letters of advice to President Obama.

Back-to-back senior class suicides rock Ripon High

RIPON - Some 40 counselors met with many grief stricken high school students in Ripon on Thursday after back-to-back suicides in the senior class.

Manteca Unified bracing for more cuts

The Manteca Unified School District is expecting more cuts down the road.

Students’ essays, poetry casts light on families, dreams for the future

Diana Duarte is only 9 years old but she already knows what she wants to be when she grows up.

School board to consider GECAC running after-school program in Weston Ranch

The after-school pilot project conducted in spring in Weston Ranch was deemed quite successful. Now, the Manteca Unified Board of Trustees is looking into possibly continuing the program. The issue is how to do that and where to get the money to keep it going.

Nile Garden neighbors insist well water is safe

Florence Luiz was 108 years old when she died a couple of years ago.

Illness not tied into Woodward Reservoir

OAKDALE – Several people that swam in Woodward Reservoir claim that the water made them sick.

Copper thieves hit Nile Garden 3 times in 2 weeks

Two men woke up by the dawn's early light on Wednesday. Both were driving quads.

Hammarstrom selected as SJ Teacher of Year

He was first in Manteca Unified. Now he is the number one in San Joaquin County.

MUSD recognizes budding author, illustrator

The accolades did not stop on graduation day the last week of May for Lawrence Silveira and Noelle Lanser.

Could water-safety issue close school?

Should Nile Garden Elementary School be closed if the water from campus wells is not safe to drink?

Manteca loses out on $15M career ed grant

Manteca Unified and its partners may have lost the grant war. But they are not giving up the battle.

$152 MILLION BOND

A $152 million bond measure has a good chance of being approved by voters in the November election.

Bush Institute selects Woodward for program

The Manteca Unified School District has announced the selection of Walter Woodward Elementary School to participate in the second year of Middle School Matters (MSM) Institute. This second round of schools expands the program to 16 schools, spanning four states, including California, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas.

Proposed $186.7M budget for MUSD

The Manteca Unified Board of Trustees tonight will discuss and then consider approving the proposed 2014-2015 budget of $186,741,148. The discussion will include anticipated expenditures to the tune of $197,545,438.

Manteca’s Samantha Placeres graduates from Pepperdine Law

Samantha Placeres of Manteca graduated with her Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in a commencement ceremony held on May 16.

Woodward 8th grade grad class features 18 with perfect grades

Last week's eighth-grade promotion exercises were a time to remember for 126 students at Walter Woodward School.

East Union posts highest grad rate in county

East Union High School is living up to its slogan: Lancers lead while others follow.