Education
Santa Fe celebrates state testing results at school assembly
Pupils and staff at Santa Fe Elementary School had plenty of reason to celebrate Friday during a school assembly. With the release of the Academic Performance Index scores on Thursday, the school learned that it scored higher than any other school in...
Local schools receive API scores
When the 2008 Academic Performance Index report was released, no other high school in the county scored higher than Monache HighSchool. MHS racked up 759 points — 19 more than the year before. “Our kids are moving forward. We’re doing...
Burton district savors success with state testing results
The Burton School District had double the reason to celebrate Wednesday when it learned that two of it schools, Oak Grove Elementary and Jim Maples Academy, improved their Academic Performance Index scores — officially removing them from a state-mandated...
Local students inducted into National Honor Roll
More than a dozen of Porterville’s high school students have been inducted this month into the 2007/2008 National Honor Roll in Washington, D.C. Eleven students who attend or recently graduated from Porterville High School, and two from Monache...
La Sierra High adding mural to wall at Porterville campus
Students at La Sierra High School are doing something that up until recently they had not had the opportunity to do — participate in an art class. Thanks to a new grant program, that changed and for the next two weeks as students, under the supervision...
West Putnam principal now soaring with the Eagles
From middle school to elementary school and from dean of students to principal of the school — Laura Geren — West Putnam’s new principal, said it did not matter how old the students were, she has enjoyed working with, and finds challenges...
PC boasts new buildings, high first-day enrollment
For some it’s the start of independence. For others it’s back to book sale hunting and getting their class schedules just right. The first day of school takes on different meanings, but a few new buildings are giving every fall semester enrollee...
Richard Smithey takes helm at Monache High
A homecoming and a dream come true. That’s how Richard Smithey describes his appointment as Monache High School’s new principal. Smithey, who has lived in the Porterville-Springville area since 1984, taught math and coached sports at Strathmore...
Porterville student helps teach English this summer in China
No paparazzi followed him in Wan Zhou, China. No frenzied fans greeted him in Olympic-hero fashion. Compared to the international events taking place in Beijing, and the glitz and hoopla that has accompanied Olympians since the Greeks ran naked in the...
Porterville student back home from semester at sea
Thirteen countries and 109 days later, a young Porterville woman has returned from studying abroad on a floating university during a unique summer school session. A 2006 graduate of Monache High School, Cherie France, 20, is in her third year at Trinity...
