Sixteen educators were honored Friday as Los Angeles County Teachers of the Year and will advance to the statewide competition.
The honorees were chosen from 77 district-level teachers of the year chosen earlier this year from among the county’s 75,000 teachers, according to the county Office of Education.
Each of the 16 honorees named today received $1,000 honorariums during a ceremony in Universal City.
The honorees are:
— Edward Meyer, Baldwin Park Unified School District;
— Kimberly Baljet, Castaic Union School District;
— Debbie Plumley, Claremont Unified School District;
— Julie Romero, Downey Unified School District;
— Mercedes Michael, Hacienda La Puente Unified School District;
— William Garrett, Las Virgenes Unified School District;
— Veronica Camelo, Little Lake City School District;
— Jean Davis, Long Beach Unified School District;
— Gail Hamilton, LBUSD;
— Maricar Fortuno Catalan, Los Angeles Unified School District;
— Lovelyn Marquez-Prueher, LAUSD;
— Isabel Morales, LAUSD;
— Michael Morgan, LAUSD;
— Hector Perez-Roman, LAUSD;
— Maggie Mabery, Manhattan Beach Unified School District; and
— James Estabrook, Torrance Unified School District.
Five statewide co-winners will be announced in November, and one of them will be selected to represent California in the National Teacher of the Year competition in the spring.
— City News Service