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Intradistrict transfer requests for first through 12th grade students can be submitted to the Morgan Hill Unified School District headquarters (15600 Concord Circle) beginning 8 am. Jan. 12.

The adversarial relationship between one in-town charter school and the local school district reared its head recently as the two sides again took swipes at one another over a proposal for a new school site.

Gavilan College coordinator Jacquelyn Richburg was one of 50 women honored for community service at the inaugural “Still I Rise” ceremony in San Jose in mid-October.

Repeating after honorary guest Larry Carr—current city councilmember and one-time school board trustee—Morgan Hill Unified School District’s newest governing body representatives, Mary Patterson, Teresa Murillo and Tom Arnett, took their oaths of office Dec. 13.

Three new board members will be officially sworn in prior to what is a full docket of education-related matters on tap for the Dec. 13 school board meeting.

The South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium, which has been training public safety students and working professionals for more than two decades, will open at Gavilan College’s new Coyote Valley Educational Center at the start of the new year.

Two Morgan Hill Unified School District educators took to the video waves this week, producing a Youtube silent clip that depicted their plights as teachers trying to make due in one of the most expensive parts of the country.The video comes on the heels of the local teachers’ union’s ongoing contract negotiations with district leadership that have stalled to a point where a mediator has been brought in.A married couple and veteran teachers, Britton Middle School’s Tony Goble and Nordstrom Elementary School’s Anna Goble, held up cards telling their story from living with their parents to save money for a home, to using grandparents for free day care that they would otherwise not be able to afford.MHUSD and the Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers have a scheduled meeting in January with the mediator to attempt to work out a fair compensation agreement before the current contract expires at the end of the 2017-18 school year.

School district officials declared an impasse in contract negotiations with the teachers union Nov. 10. Representatives for both sides will now sit down with a mediator in the coming weeks in hopes of reaching a new agreement on salaries, leaves and other negotiable articles.

The local school district could become a housing developer in the near future as school board trustees gave them the okay to invest $12,350 in pursuing allotments through the city’s Residential Development Control System.

Trustees Bob Benevento and Rick Badillo sat on the local dais for the last time Nov. 15 as the two board members served out the end of their four-year terms on Morgan Hill Unified School District’s governing body. The terms officially end Nov. 30.