The Libertys swept top honors Monday in the Central Section Scholar/Athlete Awards at the River Island Country Club in Porterville. Dereck Frost of Liberty-Bakersfield and Danielle Devine of Liberty-Madera Ranchos won $1,000 scholarships as the boys and girls winners. The remaining 10 finalists each won $500 scholarships. They were Edison’s Boris Pavic, Clovis East’s David [...]

Six central San Joaquin Valley schools have been named to a business group’s STEM honor roll, recognizing schools that have high achievement in math and science despite high poverty rates among their students. The schools are: Edison Computech Middle School and Manchester GATE Elementary School, in Fresno Unified School District; Lincoln Elementary School, Clovis Unified; [...]

Coach of the Year Craig Campbell School: Clovis West The résumé: Numbers continue to pile up for one of the most successful coaches at the Central Section’s most successful athletic program in the past 30 years. The Golden Eagles this season went 23-6, including a 10-0 Tri-River Athletic Conference mark. They had a 15-0 record [...]

Seven central San Joaquin Valley schools were among 218 statewide named Thursday as California Distinguished Schools for their strong commitment and innovative approaches to improving student academic achievement. “These schools have gone the extra mile to provide high-quality instruction that puts their students on the right path toward career and college,” State Superintendent of Public [...]

Fresno Unified high school graduation rates, the focus of community criticism and impetus for a dropout task force, are continuing to climb, although not all schools had a gain, according to the state Department of Education. The four-year graduation rate for Fresno Unified reached 74.6% in 2011-12, an increase of 1.2% over the 2010-11 rate [...]

Sanger Unified School District graduated 94% of its Hispanic and black students in 2012, the highest rate among area districts analyzed in a report released Wednesday. The study by Oakland-based Education Trust-West ranked about 145 California districts for their overall performance, five-year improvement in standardized testing, size of achievement gaps when compared against white students [...]