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With a promise from its leadership to take measures to establish a more diverse student population, the Charter School of Morgan Hill was unanimously approved for a new five-year extension by Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education.

In his official response to the notice of recall filed by the local community group, Parents 4 Positive Change, and served to him Sept. 15, Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board President Bob Benevento issued the following statement, which was filed Sept. 24 with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters:

With a staff recommendation for approval, Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education will convene for a special meeting to vote on the Charter School of Morgan Hill’s petition renewal at 5 p.m. Sept. 29 inside the Live Oak High School Theater.

Parents opposed to the school district’s new grade level reconfiguration, namely moving sixth grade into the middle school sites, are not going gently into that good night as witnessed at the Sept. 15 school board meeting.

With an increasing need for quality classified employees to staff school sites and district offices, the Santa Clara County Office of Education is launching its inaugural Santa Clara County Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at the 1290 Ridder Park Drive offices.

Whispers around town of a possible recall movement against trustees on Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education got much louder Sept. 15 when President Bob Benevento was served with a document calling for his removal from the governing body.

Engineering, computer coding, robotics and project-based learning were some of the key points outlined by Paradise Valley Elementary School principal Swati Dagar in her effort to convince Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education to allow a new curriculum focus at the site.

On Sept. 11, Sobrato Future Farmers of America leadership arrived at school in the early hours of the morning before their classmates arrived to set up a display to commemorate the loss of 2,977 lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.

Months of hullabaloo over what trustee area map was best suited for the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s change from an at-large to a by-district election system turned into a seamless decision at Tuesday’s board of education meeting.

Paradise Valley Elementary School may soon become the district’s fourth magnet school, following in the footsteps of Jackson, P.A. Walsh and San Martin/Gwinn.