Education

By Luciana Chavez They entered the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla years ago, emotionally wrung out by tragedy, criminal convictions, and prison time. But Courtney Addington, Eleonoara Igova and Guadalupe Barragan now proudly carry degrees, professional certificates, and burgeoning respect from their community.…

The Gateway Scholarship Program, UC Merced's longstanding student-support initiative focused on empowering young people from the San Joaquin Valley, has…

Andrew M. Flores has been selected as the Merced College Student of the Year for 2022-2023, ranking first among the Student of the Month cohort for the…

Families, educators and education leaders gathered last night at the Virginia Smith Honor Scholars Award Dinner, held at the MCOE Downtown Center, to celebrate the achievements of more than 100 scholarship recipients and 18 honor scholars. Students from El Capitan, Merced and Golden Valley high school were recognized for meeting…

Union leaders and educators — including four elementary school principals — who spoke up at Tuesday night’s Merced City School District Board (MCSD)…

Free backpacks, diapers, food boxes, vaccines, physicals, and resource information were available to community members and their families at…

Bee honest, if you will. Can you spell “penicillin” or “aggregate” without looking up (or googling) those words? How about define them? Well, Emma Jhuty, a fifth grader at McSwain School, did so correctly at Merced County’s first-ever Agribee Contest last Friday at the Mainzer Theater. Jhuty took top honors among 23 other…

The Merced City School District (MCSD) has designed a more intensive summer school experience this year than last year, and also thought of other ways to…

Special to the Times Stone Ridge Christian High School of Merced enjoyed a groundbreaking ceremony sporting an enthusiastic crowd to…

Suspense built on the morning of April 27 at Merced River School District’s Washington School, located at 4402 Oakdale Road in Winton, as a five-month long Participatory Budgeting process culminated in fourth through eighth grade students arriving at the “polls,” which were actual Merced County voting booths set up on campus, to…