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Voices Morgan Hill charter school will stay put for the 2016-17 school year with some support from Morgan Hill Unified School District after the two parties agreed on a facilities settlement.

Morgan Hill Unified School District will once again operate the Seamless Summer Feeding Program, which supplies free lunches to children up to age 18 during the summer months.

Jeff Brandon, the school resource officer for Morgan Hill Unified School District, was recognized earlier this month as the Crisis Intervention Officer of the Year at the fifth annual Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Board Community Heroes Awards Ceremony.

Community members are invited to attend a public forum to hear from three finalists for the top leadership position at Gavilan College, according to a press release from the school.

The two candidates vying for the vacated seventh seat on Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education took center stage May 5 for a public forum inside the Morgan Hill Community Playhouse.

A further investigation into the events of Feb. 2, in which a Morgan Hill Unified School District trustee was briefly detained by local police after a false report of a concealed weapon at the public board meeting, will not be conducted after the governing body deadlocked 3-3 to squash the motion.

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Teachers forced to rent rooms in strangers’ houses because that’s all they can afford on their current salary. Educators taking on second jobs to pay their monthly bills, including the rising rental costs that eat up more than half their income. A revolving door of young teachers coming into Morgan Hill Unified School District, cutting their teeth for a couple of years and then moving on to a higher-paying gig at a different local school district.

Cap-and-gown season is creeping up on graduating seniors and their pride-filled parents, and Morgan Hill Unified School District’s end-of-the-school-year schedule includes two June 3 high school graduations.