{"id":4262,"date":"2015-10-09T19:12:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2015-10-09T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:12:43","slug":"olmito-elementary-named-u-s-department-of-education-blue-ribbon-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"Olmito Elementary Named U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4263\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/150929-OES-Blue-Ribbon.jpg\" alt=\"150929-OES-Blue-Ribbon\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/150929-OES-Blue-Ribbon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/150929-OES-Blue-Ribbon-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/150929-OES-Blue-Ribbon-405x203.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olmito Elementary was named as one of 335 schools across the country as a National Blue Ribbon school by the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Students and staff from Olmito Elementary were notified of the honor at a pep rally at the school cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ribbon Schools are the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s highest honor. They are recognized for academic excellence and closing the achievement gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese great schools are fulfilling the promise of American education,\u201d said Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education.<br \/>\nTwenty-five schools in Texas were selected, including four from the Rio Grande Valley. The four are the first to be chosen from the Valley since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was hard work, collaboration, and years of collective data for the last five years that we have maintained a high level of performance,&#8221; said Linda Rodriguez, principal of Olmito Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>During her comments, Rodriguez thanked the previous principals at Olmito Elementary whose leadership laid the groundwork for the Blue Ribbon award. They included Superintendent Gonzalo Salazar (2004-05), Adrian Dorsett (2006-07), and Assistant Superintendent for Academics Valarie Londrie (2007-13). Rodriguez has been principal since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Olmito Elementary and the other 334 schools will be honored at a recognition ceremony Nov. 9-10 in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olmito Elementary was named as one of 335 schools across the country as a National Blue Ribbon school by the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday. Students and staff from Olmito Elementary were notified of the honor at a pep rally at the school cafeteria. Blue Ribbon Schools are the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s highest honor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}