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When it comes to school, Lilia Diaz, 17, is all business. An enterprising senior at Centennial High School with about a 4.5 GPA, Diaz was heavily involved in the Virtual Enterprise program. &q...

Our baby girl, We can’t begin to tell you how proud we are of your accomplishments in your high school career. Although it’s been very hard for us to see this come to ...

In July 2003, the California State Board of Education made the California High School Exit Exam, or CAHSEE, a diploma requirement for all public high school students in California. Students from th...

When Guadalupe Ricardo Ramirez’s alarm buzzes in the morning to wake him up, he doesn’t hear it — he feels it. Better known as “Richie” to family and friends, Ramirez ...

Marissa Simmer and her family didn’t buy the bigger house they were eyeing. They don’t take fancy trips or drive new cars, either. Instead, the Simmers prefer to spend their money o...

Editor's note As we approach this year’s graduation season and celebrate all the wonderful success stories of our community’s young people moving on to bigger & better adventures in t...

ARVIN — Recently, DiGiorgio School’s third- and fourth-grade classes got down and dirty as they transplanted seedlings into the school’s first-ever garden. As part of this year&rsq...

Rising among blooming almond trees is the aspiring growth of the Bakersfield College Delano campus, changing the educational landscape of Kern County’s second largest city. Along with the con...

Though raindrops roared violently on the roof of room 306 at the Bakersfield Adult School, it was still no match for the sound of 20 students, who hammered, buffed, sanded and painted pieces of metal ...

In his 30th year as a teacher, Richard Rodriguez, 52, is a crusader for his music students, and music in general, at Curran Middle School. He is the music director for the Curran Crusader Orchestr...