Jacqui Breitenbucher has a new role in Manteca Unified. The Sequoia School principal is moving to the district office, filling a key administrative post. In closed session last Tuesday, the school board voted unanimously, 7-0, Breitenbucher's selection as senior director of business services. Prior to coming to MUSD in 1993, she spent several years in the corporate and private sectors in business and accounting. Breitenbucher taught at Shasta School and, in 2000, became vice ...
Manteca Unified conferred diplomas to graduating high school seniors and eighth graders. Additional names will appear in the coming days. McParland School Andreas Alexander, D Ari Allen, Rodrigo Alvarez, Joseph Andrade, Breanna Archer, Mattie Baca, David Bacon, Jairo Baires, Ronald Barber, Jose Barraza, Taylor Baum, David Bendick, Deanna Bocanegra, Brianna Booker, William Borst, Flynn Brandhorst, Anthony Brown, Danielle Burrows, Edward Camden, Jacob Carden, Alexis Cardenas, Christopher Cardenas, Iruby Carrillo, Robert Casper, Casey Chastain, ...
RIPON – Colton Brock just wanted to be treated like any other student. Even after he transferred to Weston Elementary, Brock – a GATE student who had always excelled in his schoolwork – seemed to be living the life of a typical eighth-grade student. But everything was about to change. Back in January, Brock claims that a teacher informed several students of why he had been transferred to Weston – specifically that he had been ...
Manteca Unified has issued diplomas to seniors and eighth grade students. Additional names will be published in the coming days. Shasta School Jacob Alviso, Elijah Aragon, Francisco Aranda, Santos Aranda, Edward Aranda Gaytan, Abel Armendariz, Steven Arnold, Sarah Arrollo, Vanessa Arzate, Javier Avalos, Irving Avila, Luz Becerra, Sadia Bibi, Yessica Blanco, Robert Blankenship, Alicia Bridewell, Daniel Calderini, Juan Castruita, Daniel Clemons, Amber Cohen, Enrique Covarrubias, Andrew Dadasovich, Garrett Davlantis, Steven Dedrick, Jordan Derio, ...
Principal Harriet Myrick has named the Joshua Cowell School All Stars for June. Selected based on citizenship and academic effort were: 1st Grade, Alsabagh: Michelle Ayala, Julia Bledsoe, Jason Chea, Adriana Duran, Genevieve Florez, Cymone Gause, Jonathan Gutierrez, Jayda Jackson, Rogelio Ornelas, Janae Murillo, Mikayla Sarmento, Cheyenne Stith, Travis Tran, Thomas Watson, Luis Saldivar, Braden Starkey. Ms. Anthony: Tera Boyd, Jonnie Perry, Lily Carter, Ivy Heenan, Heather Pang, Monica Pedroza, Jonathan Rivas-Contreras, Sarveet Sandhu, Jasyn ...
It became apparent Tuesday that Manteca Unified will have to do more with less money come next school year.
Some 70 Ripon Christian High School students stepped up to their graduation ceremonies Friday night in the high school gym with nearly all of them going on to college.
Trustees of the Manteca Unified School District could fill several key positions at Tuesday's meeting.
Manteca Unified is in the middle of a budget crisis of what could be described as biblical proportions yet the folks at 2271 West Louise Avenue are crafting plans to spend money to put in a baseball field.
The Manteca High Class of 2009 conducted its Sober Grad Party Thursday night and Friday morning at Manteca Bowl.
The Ripon Christian High Class of 2009 posed for a photo before Friday's commencement exercises.
There was a time closing Lathrop High and shuttering New Haven and Nile Garden schools could have saved Manteca Unified over $2 million.
Sierra High School's 13th and largest graduating class of 438 was fortunate to avoid the rain Friday.
Lauren Mitchell admitted her fears at East Union High's commencement exercises. As co-valedictorian – she shared the top academic honor with Robyn Raker – Mitchell said Friday that some of it had to do with speaking in front of 5,000 friends, family members, and guests packing Dino Cunial Field. But most of her fears had to do with the uncertainty of the future. "The biggest question is: What are you going to do with your ...
It was a great year for Dolphin Joe's at Stella Brockman School. The student-operated coffee shop tended to at least one distinguished guest in State Sen. Lois Wolk, numerous administrators, and catered the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Manteca Unified district office. Dolphin Joe's is the creation of teacher Christine Simoncic, who handles students with special needs. "When I worked in the Bay Area, we had a workability program for students," she said Friday. "But ...
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.
When William Hollingsworth gets together with his friends, they do the same things normal high school kids do.
Severely deteriorating pavements at two high school and one elementary school campuses in the Manteca Unified School District are presenting health and safety risks.
Alex Orr, Sierra High School's Class of 2013 valedictorian, has his heart set on a career in the music industry. To get there, he plans to pursue a degree in applied computer science at the University of California, San Diego where he will start his college studies in the fall.
Samantha Shepard's ceramic "Autism Awareness" won Best in Category at the 2013 Manteca Unified School District's Best of the Best Art Show and Sale.