SBCSS News and Press Releases

Norma Covert County Education Center Dedication on May 23

2005-05-16

VICTORVILLE – A dedication ceremony for the Norma Covert County Education Center will be held on May 23 at 10 a.m. The site will be the second permanent school built by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools (SBCSS) and honors a former special education administrator and teacher. The Norma Covert County Education Center is located at 14079 Meadow Grove Drive.

Norma Covert-Beard worked in the County Schools Student Services Division for 25 years. She began her career as a special education teacher in 1962, served as principal at Lucy E. Siegrist and Ruth Sumney schools in Hesperia and worked with special education students from High Desert school districts until she retired as a consultant for the parent-infant program in 1987.

“We are proud to dedicate the education center to Norma, who spent 25 years in public education serving the students and communities of the High Desert,” County Superintendent Herbert Fischer said.

Special education students from Apple Valley, Hesperia, Snowline and Victorville currently attend the school, which opened in September 2003. The $1.1 million 4,320-square-foot school, located on 1.2 acres, has about 35 preschool through early elementary students from High Desert school districts.

One of Superintendent Fischer’s priorities has been to build and acquire permanent facilities to house the 6,000-plus special education and alternative education students served by SBCSS. Four more county education centers in Etiwanda, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands and Rialto are scheduled to open in the next year.