Lindbergh Educational Center, also known as Manteca Adult School, located in Manteca, California

Manteca, California

Manteca is a city in , USA. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 67,096.- History :Manteca is a city in the Central Valley of California, 76 miles east of San Francisco. It was founded in 1861 by Joshua Cowell. Cowell claimed around and built houses on what is now the corner of Main...

, is part of the Manteca Unified School District

Manteca Unified School District

Manteca Unified School District is a school district based in Lathrop and Manteca, in California.-About:Schools in MUSD are year-round and traditional. Elementary schools are from Kindergarten to eighth grade...

. Thousands of its students have earned their high school diplomas or General Educational Development certificates. Its vocational training program "has earned numerous recognition for its effectiveness." In 1997, its Teen Parent Panel won the Action on Behalf of Children (ABC) Award.

Program aspects

Lindbergh offers high school diploma classes, GED

GED

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 preparation, ESL

ESL

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 courses, older adult programs, music, art, and fitness classes. The center also offers courses for students interested in learning or improving vocational skills ranging from cabinetmaking to medical transcription

Medical transcription

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. First Aid and CPR

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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 "outside training conferences" are offered at the center through Valley Mountain Regional Center located in Stockton, California

Stockton, California

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. It is a member of Cisco System's Cisco Networking Academy

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 in the California Congressional District 11

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.

Generally, there is a fee for registering. Senior adults and students taking classes for high school credit are given a discount.

Lindbergh Educational Center is housed in one of Manteca’s historical buildings, a Late Gothic Revival, constructed in 1928.

Additional national program offering

As of 2006, Lindbergh Educational Center actively offered the National Girls Collaborative Project's Girls Discover program which focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. "The NGCP is designed to reach girl-serving STEM organizations across the United States."

Courses offered

Through its Regional Occupation Center, Lindbergh Education Center offers a number of courses that are handicapped accessible

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 to include:

• Career Guidance
• Clinical Medical Assistant
• Computers
• Exercise & Fitness
• GED Preparation
• English as a Second Language
• Guitar
• High School Diploma
• Medical Terminology/Transcriber
• Older Adult Programs
• Quilting
• Yoga

Internet training

On May 13, 2009, Atsuhisa Okura, a Japanese

Japanese people

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 Manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

artist, taught students via an internet "virtual classroom".

Sources

• LINDBERGH EDUCATIONAL CENTER www.mantecausd.net Retrieved:2010-05-03.