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Voices College-bound Language Academies, which includes a Morgan Hill school among its three sites, was approved for a $2.7 million federal grant, according to an Oct. 3 press release.

A presentation on Morgan Hill Unified School District’s “Be Seen and Heard” sexual abuse training for students will be introduced to the board of education at the Oct. 3 meeting.

I would like to join the many voters in Morgan Hill that agree with John McKay’s “Our Town” commentary (from the Sept. 15 edition of the Morgan Hill Times) regarding district elections. Not only is district voting a travesty, but it is an insult to every voter in our city!We do not need to be told how to vote or who to vote for. The fact is, our city council has enjoyed amazing representation of the diversity of Morgan Hill. When we had a choice to vote someone out of council and vote for a new candidate, we did. This district voting scheme is just that: another way for losing candidates to force themselves on the voting public!Look at what has happened at the Morgan Hill Unified School District! In the last election, we had one district with only one candidate, because other very qualified candidates lived outside that district.District elections narrow our choices and may very well force the voters to send an unqualified candidate to office.On the MHUSD board, we have a split board that rarely, if ever agrees with one another, and we have a board member that we know very little about that ran unopposed from her district. We, in Morgan Hill, deserve better than this on our school board and at city council!Please don’t insult our intelligence with district elections and term limits. Let the voters decide who is best qualified and aligns with our values in order to address the complicated issues we face.This insult is being forced upon us because of a few losers that ran and did not win want an advantage to their losing cause.A threat of a lawsuit is a challenge, not a reason to roll over and give these losers an advantage. Shame on us!Ever Onward,Swanee EdwardsMorgan Hill

My name is Japheth Negash, and I am a junior at Ann Sobrato High School. I’m 16 years old and have been a resident of Morgan Hill for my entire life.

School officials must mine their way through $5.5 million in budgetary cuts unless they can generate more revenue to offset the district’s deficit spending that began last year, according to a “Right Sizing the Budget” presentation at a board of education meeting earlier this month.

After an extensive national search, the Board of Directors for South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium appointed Linda Vaughn to the position of President/CEO at their Sept. 21 meeting, according to a Sept. 21 announcement.

This past Monday, Sept. 11, Sobrato Future Farmers of America continued a tradition that started in 2010: creating a memorial to honor the victims of the terrorist attack in 2001.

Bringing an anti-bullying message along with him to El Toro Elementary School, Harlem Globetrotter Anthony “Buckets” Blakes entertained local students with his flashy basketball skills at a pair of Sept. 14 assemblies on campus.

A 40-minute board study session on Naviance, a college- and career readiness platform that helps connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals, is planned between the Sept. 19 closed and open session in the upstairs conference room of district headquarters.

It’s the sixth day of school and students at Voices College-Bound Language Academy are already at ease with their new surroundings. Mostly Latino students, donning the school’s trademark yellow-and-purple collared shirts tucked into their khakis, walk through the halls of the Jarvis Drive facility in an orderly, disciplined manner.