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Ford Motor Company and General Mills, two companies that have made supporting education a key element of their business, awarded Barrett Elementary School with 10,000 Box Tops for Education® worth $1,000. And, the Ford Store Morgan Hill also donated an additional $1,000 to the school. In total, Barrett Elementary School received $2,000 from Ford.

The year was 2007: Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor, Burnett Elementary was still operating and the words "budget reductions" were not something at which Morgan Hill Unified School District staff winced.

Charter School of Morgan Hill will have a special visit Wednesday from Dr. Lee Hoffmann, the founder of Hoffmann Learning Research Institute.

Budget woes are now common for Morgan Hill Unified School District. Yet with larger class sizes, furlough days and a smaller teaching staff, the district is now starting to run out of places to cut.

The multi-purpose room in Nordstrom Elementary Wednesday was filled with parents, teachers and even students interested in learning about a dual-immersion program school, which would integrate 50 percent English speakers and 50 percent Spanish speakers and provide instruction in both languages.

Morgan Hill Unified School district has dual-immersion and an independent study charter in mind.

Federica Bruno and Lisa Gilardi want to graduate from Live Oak High School with the rest of their senior class.

After a group of vandals went to town at Gavilan College - stealing hundreds of dollars in supplies; marking up the campus with the tags "OSK," "OS" and "LOST" - the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department is following up on leads and investigating the incident.

Charters are still public schools. It’s the phrase both Principal Paige Cisewski of Charter School of Morgan Hill and Head of School Jean Southland of the Silicon Valley Flex Academy have repeatedly said before and emphasized.