NEWS STORIES

  • CALIPATRIA — A wealth of experience helps anyone transition into a new job, but what makes Kelley Marmolejo stand out as an education administrator is her zeal to serve. After performing well as a secondary language arts curriculum coordinator for the Imperial County Office of Education (ICOE) these past four years, she currently serves as the principal for Fremont Primary School.

  • Imperial County – Imperial Valley School District Superintendents have honored 3 individuals for outstanding support to students with a disability.    The eighth annual SELPA Community Advisory Committee (CAC) awards were presented to Norma Nava, Imperial Valley College;  Alan Phillips, CEO California Mid-winter Fair and Bethany Carson, Brawley Union High School Special Education Teacher.  The presentation of

  • Click here for our July 2017 community edition of the monthly ICOEnnections publication. Stories include:

  • Brawley – First year teacher, Daniel Nunez, from Alternative Education’s Del Rio Academy in Brawley reflected on one of his most vivid memories as a new teacher. “It seems like almost every day of the school year there was something memorable” responded Nunez. “But I do remember a fondness for the graduation ceremony – one student in particular I had first met at Rite-Track (an evening program for at-risk youth) graduated and it was rewarding to see her accomplish an important goal like graduating from high school.”

  • Imperial County – The newly released Imperial County Office of Education Annual Yearbook (a.k.a. our Annual Report) will highlight areas of success in education as well as identify areas where we, as a community, must continue to improve.  

  • Just like they had done all year, an hour a day, up to twice a week, George Mendez and Yazbeth Velasquez folded, matched and sorted high-fashion clothes at the Banana Republic store at Calexico’s Gran Plaza mall. Today would be different, though, when assistant manager Stephanie Villanueva presented the young men with a cake on their last day of “work.”

  • Click here for our June 2017 community edition of the monthly ICOEnnections publication. Stories include: Imperial County Classified Employees of the Year Special Projects Grants for Imperial County Schools Special Education Field Trip Special Education Remodeling Projects ECEP Parenting Skills Workshop


  • The El Centro Kiwanis club donated $1,080 to the Imperial Valley Center for Exceptional Children to purchase equipment for the “Sensory Room” being developed at the school.  The sensory room is an indoor play space for students with Autism. Left to right:  Lisa Soto, ICOE Program Manager, Betty Tucker, President of El Centro Kiwanis, Kurt Leptich, Imperial County SELPA and Eddie Hernandez, Principal of the Imperial Valley Center for Exceptional Children.

  • If you missed this year's Celebration of Education be sure to check out the photo archive for this yearly event! Celebration of Education Photos For the complete archive of ICOE events be sure to visit our webpage! https://www.icoe.org/about-icoe/resources/photo-archive