By Richard Bammer

The Solano County Office of Education has named an instructor who works with hearing-impaired students and a custodian as teacher and classified employees of the year, respectively.

Katherine Reyes, a deaf and hard-of-hearing program teacher for SCOE, was cited in the teacher category, and Mike Kohl, a SCOE custodian in the classified, or school-support, employee category, Jennifer Leonard, a spokeswoman for SCOE, which has offices in Fairfield.

An SCOE teacher since 2012, Reyes, who is deaf herself, teaches classes at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield.

Source: SCOE names two as employees of the year – The Reporter