Education
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“GREASE” is the Word at CP
Take a fun-filled, musical trip back in time to the ‘50s, with CPHS’ production of “Grease,” featuring hits such as “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightning,” “We Go Together,” and “Beauty School Drop O...
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MDUSD and City Council Holds Joint Meeting
For two hours on April 15, questions, concerns and ideas abounded at the joint meeting between the Mt. Diablo Unified School District and the Pleasant Hill City Council. With the purpose of discus...
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Wombo Combo is comprised of College Park High School students, (l to r): Caleb Phair, Aaron Uribe, Mason Johnson, Mason Davis, Brian Smith, and Christian Wanser.
Quick! What Rhymes with Combo?
It was mere minutes from the start of the live auction at College Park High School’s 2012 Musician’s Showcase and black-tie fundraiser at the Concord Hilton Hotel last October. Mason Johnson, 11th ...
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MDUSD School Board Member Seeking Meetings with City Councils
At the March 6 city council meeting, Mayor Schroder stated that Cheryl Hanson, president of the Mt. Diablo School Board of Trustees, is seeking a joint meeting of the school board and the city coun...
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Envision Tomorrow
A New Educational and Professional Development Experience for High School Students In an effort to encourage struggling high school students to become more college and career minded, Alhambra...
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Pleasant Hill Education Initiative
“Our children are the future we may never see.” Well-educated children who are prepared to face the challenges life presents are essential to our future. I’ve been an educator for over fifty year...
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Mayor Michael Harris Launches Education Initiative
Pleasant Hill Mayor, Dr. Michael Harris, launched a new initiative during his ‘State of the City’ address at the Mayor’s Breakfast on Thursday, February 7th. The Pleasant Hill Education Initiative,...
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PHPD Helps With School Safety
John Moore, Pleasant Hill Police Department Interim Police Chief, recently met with representative from each of the nine Pleasant Hill schools with the purpose of discussing campus safety and secur...
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Mandatory Student Fees Now Violate California Law
On September 29, 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1575, introduced by Assembly Member Ricardo Lara, ensuring "free schools" for all California's public school children, regardless of econo...
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College Park Eligible to Apply for Distinguished School Award
According to the California Department of Education (CDE), there exists an “achievement gap” among student subgroups that threatens their future and the future of California. Statewide, schools and...
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By Hannah Baaten
Projects From AHS's Advanced Photo Class
Alhambra High’s Advanced Photo students, taught by Miriam Fabbri, were assigned a challenging project: to use one of their original black and white photos and combine color using magazine scraps to...
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Alhambra Art Survey Class Project
The Alhambra High students in Mrs. Fuller’s Art Survey class recycled old film boxes from the photo classes and created 4" dioramas in honor of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a Mexican holid...
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Biomedical period 2 competition winners from LtoR: Back Row, Jeff Krutilla, Brett Bechter, Dipen Patel. Front Row: Natalie Rhoades, Lauren Meneghetti, Jena Gonsalves, Vincent Nyugen. Not pictured: Zahra Hamidi. Period 4 competition winners, not pictured, were Tyler Newhouse, Gillian Henry, Tom Hester and Abbey Mulligan. Their intervention was called the Vital Chip.
Inaugural Science Class at College Park High School
A Plaque Prevention Pill, Memory Hat and Vital Chip were just some of the ideas created by students in teacher Janet Spencer’s Principles of Biomedical Sciences class at College Park this year. Th...
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Celebrating Retiring Teachers and Principals
The Martinez Unified and Mt. Diablo Unified school districts said farewell to several teachers at the end of the 2011-2012 school year, some who had careers that spanned over twenty years. The Foc...
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Gregory Gardens Elementary school teachers will use their grant money to purchase items such as classroom sets of U.S. maps, a world map and/or globes for kindergarten, 1st, and 3rd grades; multiple classroom sets of science programs/materials for kindergarten and multiple classroom sets of literature programs for kindergarten and 1st grades.
FPHE Awards $36,600 to Pleasant Hill Schools
On May 18, the Foundation for Pleasant Hill Education (FPHE) awarded $36,600 to support educational activities in Pleasant Hill public schools. The grants were funded as a result of FPHE’s 2012 Ann...
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