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The Falcon Autistic Solar Team at Independence High School has been selected the 2013 California Senior School of the Year.
This is the second time Independence has won the award in the last three years. The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project is sponsoring one student and one teacher to attend the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., June 21-24. The team members are Kayley Donovan, Jose Rodriguez-Valenzuela, Dylan Czoschke, Sydney Evans, Joselyn Bermudez, Jason Mora, Marquez Bonner and Josiah Nerney-McGlown.
In 2010, Independence High's higher-functioning students with autism formed a club called the Falcon Autistic Solar Team, or FAST, to help educate other schools about how a solar panel takes radiant energy from...
Teacher Diana Cable pointed out the hexagon-shaped name tag, cuboid torso and cone hat on Chloe the homework "robot." "I have never seen my kids more excited than they were about this project," she told colleagues at a brainstorming...
This coming fall, every school in the state of California will be scrambling to meet a set of richer, more rigorous academic performance standards. Since 2010, California, 44 other states and the District of Columbia have adopted the same...
Donald Joseph Vettel 1946-2013 Don Vettel, an award-winning speech and debate coach at West High School, died on Tuesday. He was 67. Vettel began teaching at West in 1971 and oversaw the school's speech and debate team from 1973 to 2003...
The Panama-Buena Vista Union School District is scrambling to figure out how it's going to deal with overcrowding at some schools now that the school board has backed away from a proposal to redraw school attendance boundaries. An...
Urged by parents who said the effort to redraw school boundaries had been rushed through with inadequate public input, the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District Tuesday put off indefinitely a vote on a proposed new attendance map....
The Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office Friday held the first of what it hopes will be many annual career fairs for special education students. Thirteen schools, companies and agencies met with about 120 students from the Kern High...
It seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime story last March when research done by Bakersfield High School students resulted in the return of a Purple Heart to the family of a sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Turns out it wasn...
Music teacher Alex Gonzales from the Delano Joint Union High School District, and science teacher Robert Hodash from Sierra Middle School, were honored Tuesday as the 2012-13 Kern County Teachers of the Year. The pair will...
The Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office has announced the results of the 43rd annual Kern County Middle School Mathematics Field Day held Saturday at Liberty High School. More than 700 middle school students from two dozen schools...
The Panama-Buena Vista Union School District is redrawing its attendance boundary lines to accommodate growth in the southwest. The district thought about building a new school during the housing boom, but now that new construction has...
Seven Kern County teens are among 1,000 high school students across the nation who have been named Gates Millennium Scholars this year. The prestigious scholarship for African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific...
The Kern County Superintendent of Schools office honored five local schools Wednesday for receiving awards from the California Department of Education and the National Title I Association. Fruitvale Junior High, Liberty High School and...
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Kern's image may be taking a hit (17)
The death of a man in custody following a prolonged struggle with Kern County Sheriff's deputies and CHP officers and the subsequent fracas over confiscated witness cellphones have gained international attention and raised concerns here that the incidents could tarnish the county's emerging...
ROBERT PRICE: Has good-ol'-boy corruption seized the Kern County Sheriff's Office? (9)
The Kern County Sheriff's Office is out of control. That's one conclusion many people will draw based on the events of the past two weeks and in the context of recent years.
Sheriff seeks medical details about Silva (7)
Sheriff’s investigators served a search warrant on Kern Medical Center and the Mary K. Shell Mental Health Center seeking medical records to find possible reasons for David Sal Silva’s behavior prior to and during his encounter with law enforcement, The Californian learned Friday.
Council committee waters down anti-abortion ordinance (7)
A draft city ordinance that would have restricted abortion in Bakersfield was placed on hold Monday when the Bakersfield City Council's Legislative and Litigation Committee voted 3-0 to table its discussion indefinitely, and instead, ordered the drafting of a resolution that could be less...
Dad who died during arrest 'begged for his life'; witness videos seized
Blood stains are still visible on the sidewalk at the corner of Flower Street and Palm Drive, where a Bakersfield man struggled with as many as nine officers and later died this week.
School canceled at Bakersfield High after small explosions
Classes were canceled at Bakersfield High School Monday after three small bottle bomb explosions struck campus, authorities said.
Silva's screams mark video that lacks baton strikes
David Sal Silva’s screams seem like they will never stop.
Sheriff requests FBI inquiry into in-custody death
Responding to what he called a case that “has consumed the media and our community,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Tuesday he has asked the FBI to conduct a “parallel” investigation into the death of Bakersfield father of four David Sal Silva, who died May 8 after he was beaten by deputies.