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1. Independence team earns high honor

   By THE BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN

   Monday, May 20 2013 09:26 AM

   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...

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   Common Core collaboration among local teachers 'unprecedented'

   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...
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   Rollout of new academic standards, testing off to slow start

   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...
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   Longtime coach of West High speech team dies

   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...
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   Panama struggles with remaining options for relieving overcrowding

   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...
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   Panama-Buena Vista mothballs new school boundaries

   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....

7. KCSOS holds inaugural career fair for special education students

   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...
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   BHS class helps reunite another family with a relative's WWII Purple Heart medal

   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...

10. Education roundup: Teachers of the year recognized

    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...

11. KCSOS names math winners

    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...
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    Growing pains hit Panama-Buena Vista district

    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...
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    Seven Kern County students named Gates Millennium Scholars

    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...

14. Education roundup: Local schools honored

    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...