Browse past news stories for Castle Dome Middle School in Yuma, AZ.

• Children get 'forever' families (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 02:14:33 am
  The Yuma County Juvenile Justice Center celebrated National Adoption Day on Friday for the first time with — what else? — nearly 30 children who have been living under foster care getting adopted into new families.
• Parents call for special ed reform (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 05:12:14 am
  Parents appealed to the Yuma Elementary School District 1 governing board Tuesday to make some critical changes they say will enhance special education programs.
• Community pays for first round of District 1 sports (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 06:19:06 am
  Yuma Elementary School District 1's first round of its athletic program has kicked into gear and volunteer organizers say their efforts have paid off.
• Yuma weighs in on student health revisions (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on August 27, 2009 at 05:09:23 am
  Opportunity for public input to the Arizona Department of Education's forum considering revised standards on physical and health education was welcomed by Yuma parents, but some expressed dismay at the sparse turnout Wednesday.
• AWC and District 1 begin new year (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 02:30:45 am
  School parking lots were overflowing as Arizona Western College and Yuma Elementary District 1 welcomed back students for a new academic year. "The reason we're so busy is because our enrollment is up 16 percent over last fall," Bryan Doak, AWC vice president for student services, said.
• District 1 staff reconnects at breakfast (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on August 14, 2009 at 08:30:49 pm
  A welcome back breakfast Friday for Yuma Elementary School District 1 offered an ideal chance for 1,500 employees to reconnect and get about the business of education, said Superintendent Darwin Stiffler.
• Weddle, Gough making waves for Heat (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on July 30, 2009 at 05:23:57 am
  While Yuma Heat organizers continue their fight to keep using Marcus Pool, Yuma Heat swimmers are proving their mettle in the water all over the country.
• District 1 parents to launch booster club (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on June 24, 2009 at 05:07:52 am
  Yuma Elementary School District 1 parents launched a booster club in an effort to save middle school athletics at a special meeting at district offices Tuesday.
• Moonlight run along river set for Friday (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on June 17, 2009 at 11:52:42 pm
  Yuma Desert Runners and the Gowan Company plan to sponsor the Second Annual Summer Solstice Moonlight 5K Fun Run along the Colorado River on Friday evening.
• District 1 looks at alternative funding for school sports (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on June 11, 2009 at 12:37:43 am
  Yuma Elementary School District 1 scrambled to find alternative funding to keep sports programs wide open for another season Wednesday as parents, coaches, administrators and students brainstormed at district offices.
• Parent speaks out against $50,000 AVID training in San Diego (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 04:22:42 am
  A concerned Yuma Elementary School District 1 parent expressed dismay for a planned teacher training conference he maintains should be allocated to the classroom instead, at the district's board meeting Tuesday.
• NIE Teacher of the Year announced (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on May 29, 2009 at 05:07:42 am
  Due to his ongoing efforts to enrich the minds of his students with the use of newspapers, Dr. Christopher P. Ochoa, Ph.D.., has received the 2009 Newspapers in Education (NIE) Teacher of the Year Award.
• Creativity flourishes at local science fair (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on May 2, 2009 at 11:37:44 pm
  Yuma County science students ask a lot of questions, but they often have some unique ways of arriving at the answers. The Yuma County Science Festival, held in the AWC gymnasium, showed varied displays of scientific curiosity.
• Science festival showcases student successes (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on May 1, 2009 at 05:07:42 am
  The Yuma County Science Festival, opening today, is the precise event to stimulate that up-and-coming chemist, engineer, physicist or botanist now in school to become a critical thinker, according to one of its organizers.
• District 1 recall canceled (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on April 21, 2009 at 10:37:52 pm
  The petition drive to recall the Yuma Elementary District 1 school board president has been canceled by its organizers.
• Yuma Elementary District 1 to cut 28 teachers (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on April 9, 2009 at 03:34:05 am
  Castle Dome Middle School teachers Rozz Williams and Jessica Casey will find out this morning whether or not they have a job for next school year. Williams and Casey could be among the 28 teaching positions that the Yuma Elementary School District 1 voted to cut Wednesday night.
• District 1 may cut 50 educators (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on March 31, 2009 at 06:46:19 am
  A list of cost-trimming measures by Yuma Elementary School District 1 approved last week could result in actually feeling the largest reductions, according to a school board member.
• District 1 to cut teaching jobs (The Yuma Sun)
  posted on March 25, 2009 at 06:34:19 am
  The Yuma Elementary School District 1 approved budget reduction procedures Tuesday night that could affect teaching positions. The board passed a list of recommended cuts with a 3-2 vote. Board members Joseph Melchionne and Gary Wright voted against the list.