Board gives go-ahead for new Britton campus
There will be a brand new Britton Middle School campus by the fall of 2018, as the school district’s Board of Education approved an initial $750,000 allocation of bond money for architectural design fees for the project.
School district slows Rocketship’s launch
History repeated itself Tuesday night when the Board of Education voted 6-1 in front of a modest audience to shoot down a second charter organization’s request to open a school within district boundaries by fall 2014.
Crossroads honors San Francisco Giants
Crossroads Christian School celebrated the San Francisco Giants
Principals to decide whether students tune in to Obama address
As President Barack Obama prepares for his speech to
Free summer lunches offered by MHUSD
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.
Bill Gives Special Education Students CAHSEE Reprieve
While seniors throughout the state struggle to pass the
Science comes alive
With workshops such as “A Cow’s Eye View,” “Pokemon Math,” “The Secret Life of Strawberries,” and “Jamba Juice Jenga,” local students were treated to a Saturday filled with academic enrichment Feb. 7 at the 14th annual Science Alive Conference on the Gavilan College campus in Gilroy.Middle school students (grades 6-8) from Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy and Hollister were introduced to math and science based, hands-on activities in a wide variety of one-hour workshops spread throughout the day.In all, there were 18 workshops, where students explored such things as the principles of energy storage and conversion, the physics of sound and music, the magic of geometry, principles of electric circuits and how the heart functions. Each workshop called for students to construct a project to test what they had learned.Students pre-registered for the sold out event, filling in their four top choices of workshops they wanted to attend. Each student was then placed in three selected workshops.Instructors included faculty and students from Gavilan College, San Jose State University and Gilroy High School as well as others from the Chabot Space and Science Center and Gilroy Veterinary Hospital.
LO percussion, color guard end stellar season
The Live Oak High School's winter percussion and color guard
Gavilan College earns six-year accreditation renewal
The creation of a student achievement tracking system, a commitment to student support and establishing a collegial, inclusive college culture were among the praises given to Gavilan College during its recent accreditation renewal process.