MARTINEZ, Calif. – This past Tuesday, April 25, Contra Costa County Office of Education (CCCOE) Superintendent of Schools Karen Sakata visited Julie Quinn’s classroom at Las Juntas Elementary School. Quinn, a 34-year instructor, was recently named Martinez School District’s Teacher of the Year (TOY). For the past 17 years, Quinn …
Read More »Martinez students cook up healthy comfort food recipes during Sodexo Future Chefs Challenge
MARTINEZ, Calif. – While healthy eating can be a challenge for kids and parents, elementary school students in Martinez Unified will use their creativity and culinary skills to make healthy comfort food recipes in the 2017 “Sodexo Future Chefs Challenge.” The national initiative, now in its seventh year, was created …
Read More »Super Bowl Host Committee helps deliver Las Juntas field trip
By DANNY YOEONO Martinez Tribune The Lindsay Wildlife Experience, formerly known as the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, hosted three classes of first graders and one class of special needs students from Las Juntas Elementary last week, free of charge for a special field trip that was made possible in part by …
Read More »School Board trims project to air condition John Swett, Las Juntas
By DONNA BETH WEILENMAN Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – The cost estimate to air condition both John Swett and Las Juntas elementary schools came in at about $1 million more than was budgeted. But the Martinez Unified School District Board of Education agreed to a slimmed-down version of the project …
Read More »