Focus on Education: Modesto students succeeding

MODESTO -- School administrators will honor students who have succeeded against challenges, gone beyond expectations, or simply won the hearts of their teachers and other staff at 7 a.m. this morning at the Petersen Event Center in Modesto, 720 12th St. The "Every Student Succeeding" program is presented by the Stanislaus Charter of the Association of California School Administrators, along with the Stanislaus County Office of Education, Mocse Credit Union and E.&J. Gallo Winery. For a list of the 23 students being honored, click here.

YCCD TO MEET: The Yosemite Community College District will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Manzanita Community Education Room, Columbia College. The board will vote on rehiring art professor Haleh Niazmand and receive a list of seven professors planning sabbaticals. Trustees will consider appointments for two-year terms on the Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee. See the agenda at http://yccd.yosemite.edu/Trustees.

KEYES BOARD TO MEET: The Keyes Union Elementary School District Board will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Keyes Elementary School cafeteria, 5680 Seventh St. No agenda was available.