Browse past news stories for Special Education in Downey, CA.

• Downey Students Help Special Ed Grow Garden (The Downey Patriot)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 09:11:41 am
  Since the summer, the botany class at Downey has helped special education students cultivate a vegetable garden. According to Downey principal Tom Houts, botany students worked with the special education students in mending the soil and planting vegetables.
• PTA appreciates its East Middle School teachers (The Downey Patriot)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 05:38:20 am
  There are 56 teachers at East Middle School and each one brings something special to the students there. Teachers often help struggling students before and after their school day begins and ends.
• Central Valley holiday shoppers begin their ritual (Modesto Bee)
  posted on November 8, 2009 at 10:16:59 am
  Holiday shoppers will be more careful with what they're buying this year, but if an informal su
• History on the bench in Moorestown (Burlington County Times)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 06:03:53 am
  MOORESTOWN - Lois Downey didn't set out to break a glass ceiling.
• Ehlert offers experience, knowledge (South Lyon Herald)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 11:24:33 am
  With 17 years on the South Lyon Community Schools Board of Education, candidate George Ehlert is a man of knowledge. Ehlert, 53, offers voters experience as a South Lyon board of education member along with experience sitting on the Oakland Schools board, following his appointment as an interim board member for five years during a time of mismanagement. “It needed to be done to protect public ...
• Bridging the divide: At The Grace School everyone is special (The Providence Journal)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 02:47:00 am
  Special-needs pupils share classrooms with regular pupils at The Grace School and the students gain from the experience, say parents.
• Education Briefs (The Plainfield Sun)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 09:11:40 am
  Eichelberger Elementary launches lending library
• Work-based learning program gains momentum (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 02:30:02 pm
  Quick work sanding fenders landed Aaron Burks a job at Southern Customs Collision and Restoration.
• 9-12 Meetings: on the agenda (The Edmond Sun)
  posted on September 12, 2009 at 01:04:44 am
  Edmond City CouncilThe Edmond City Council and Edmond Public Works Authority will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday in City Council Chambers, 20 S. Littler. The following items are on the agenda:1. Call to order by Mayor Pro Tem Charles Lamb.2. Approval of Aug. 24 Edmond City Council meeting minutes.3. City Council presentations:A. City Manager’s Progress Report.4. General Consent Items:
• People's Choice Voting Has Begun (Rockbridge Weekly)
  posted on September 1, 2009 at 09:31:36 pm
  The annual Chamber of Commerce People's Choice award voting is now underway through the end of October with the following people nominated. The awards will be given out the first week of November at a special breakfast for the nominees.
• More than 200 have applied to join UI Board of Trustees (The Champaign News-Gazette)
  posted on August 27, 2009 at 12:02:29 pm
  CHICAGO – Everyone from a federal judge and a state legislator to retired professors and a member of the wait staff at the Esquire Lounge in Champaign has applied to serve on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Everyone, that is, except Chris Kennedy and Lawrence Oliver II, who were named to the UI board Wednesday by Gov. Pat Quinn.
• Student news (The Herald-Mail)
  posted on August 1, 2009 at 03:49:27 am
  SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Brianne Kirkpatrick was recently inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society at Shippensburg University.
• Inside Needham's new High Rock School (Needham Times)
  posted on July 30, 2009 at 10:43:16 am
  The town is putting the finishing touches on the renovated High Rock School, which is set to open this September as a sixth-grade learning center.
• County BOE approves personnel action (The Braselton News)
  posted on July 17, 2009 at 10:31:01 am
  •New hires: Lisa Boyd, special education English teacher at East Jackson Comprehensive High School (EJCHS); Michael Broadowski, music teacher, East Jackson Elementary School (EJES)/South Jackson Elementary School (SJES)/Benton Elementary School (BES); Hope Bush, intervention specialist, system-wide (ARRA funds); Glenda Campbell, bookkeeper, EJCHS; Lauren Cooke, special education teacher, East ...
• Education matters: Readers tell us what they think (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  posted on July 13, 2009 at 07:07:32 am
  Passionate parents are pulling kids from school
• Endangered teachers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  posted on July 6, 2009 at 07:23:55 am
  Ex-teachers often say their resignations had nothing to do with falling out of love with the profession or tiring of the low pay and long hours. Many say they were ardent about teaching and fierce about wanting the best for their students and holding themselves and their schools accountable.
• Downey High Valedictorian and Salutatorian (The Downey Patriot)
  posted on July 3, 2009 at 07:15:28 am
  As the end of the year is fast approaching and graduation is coming soon for seniors, Downey High students are curious as to know who are the valedictorian and salutatorian for this year’s graduating class.
• Issue in depth: Education Readers write (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  posted on June 23, 2009 at 06:51:51 am
  High scores come at price
• Queen's Birthday honours list 2009 (News Mail)
  posted on June 7, 2009 at 09:10:55 pm
  AMONG the worthy philanthropists, aid workers and business leaders on the Queen's Birthday honours list, no award is more poignant than Chris O'Brien's.
• BRCC finalist stops by campus (The News Virginian)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 04:13:33 am
  WEYERS CAVE - Doreen Larson, one of three finalists to become Blue Ridge Community College’s next president, told students and staff Thursday she will need their help if she is chosen for the job.
• State announces finalists for BRCC president (The Staunton News Leader)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 04:57:38 pm
  WEYERS CAVE — Three finalists for the position of president at Blue Ridge Community College were certified by the Ad-Hoc Presidential Certification Committee of the State Board for Community Colleges.
• Search for next BRCC president narrows to 3 finalists (The News Virginian)
  posted on May 21, 2009 at 04:19:10 am
  Veteran Blue Ridge Community College administrator John Downey is one of three finalists to become the college’s new president along with administrators from colleges in Maryland and Massachusetts.
• EVIT denies registration for 100 Gilbert special needs students (The Arizona Republic)
  posted on May 13, 2009 at 08:30:29 pm
  Institute blames a pending civil rights complaint.
• Gilbert special ed teens in limbo at EVIT (East Valley Tribune)
  posted on May 13, 2009 at 05:58:00 am
  About 80 Gilbert district special needs students’ registrations have been put on hold to attend the East Valley Institute of Technology in the fall, and several parents are upset their teens may not be able to attend the Mesa school.
• 1,400 graduate from UNC (Greeley Tribune)
  posted on May 10, 2009 at 07:20:41 am
  About 1,400 students at the University of Northern Colorado received bachelor's and graduate degrees this weekend.
• Transition years: Families, pros plan (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
  posted on May 7, 2009 at 01:38:29 pm
  Dawn and William McConnell were among the 53 families and more than 70 professionals who attended the Northern Lakes Community Mental Health conference on Self-Determination and Successful School Transitions last month in Lake City.
• Focus on autism (The Signal)
  posted on May 3, 2009 at 12:04:55 pm
  When Angel Gutierrez was taken for his first haircut, his mother noticed something that bothered her.
• MSU Billings holds 82nd commencement (Billings Gazette)
  posted on May 3, 2009 at 06:58:42 am
  Montana State University Billings had 872 students apply for degrees that were awarded during the university's 82nd commencement on Saturday at MetraPark.
• Saddleback district ordered to pay $1.4 million to contractor (Orange County Register)
  posted on April 16, 2009 at 09:07:56 pm
  Mepco Services of Downey was hired three years ago to renovate a Mission Viejo special education school.
• Broken Bow's 47 fifth-graders to have 2 teachers, plus half (Kearney Hub)
  posted on April 16, 2009 at 06:09:43 pm
  BROKEN BOW — Broken Bow fifth-graders will lose only one-half of a teacher’s time.