Schools

As the 2022-23 school year quickly approaches, Morgan Hill Unified School District has hired eight new staff members to fill leadership positions on school campuses and in the central office. The first day of the 2022-23 academic year for students at MHUSD’s 14 schools is...

One hundred dollars went a long way for a team of six Martin Murphy Middle School students, who used recycled materials, paint, glue and electronic components to build a scale model of a city to compete in the Future City Northern California Championship. Team Taifeng...

California school districts have two choices: Bite the bullet and make budget cuts now, or delay them and face even more painful decisions. That was the ultimatum Michael Fine, CEO of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, a school finance agency, delivered to district...

Morgan Hill residents Conall Hutcheson and Emma Mahler graduated from California Connections Academy North Bay, a tuition-free online public school that serves students from grades K-12 across the state. A total of 982 seniors graduated from California Connections Academy in two recent commencement ceremonies,...

Voices College-Bound Language Academies charter school is preparing to expand to a 2.02-acre site on a currently vacant plot of land just south of downtown Morgan Hill. The new campus, proposed on a property at the northwest intersection of Cosmo Avenue and Monterey Road, has...

Longtime Morgan Hill coach and educator Jim Green’s ability to motivate and mentor young students and athletes throughout his 45-year-plus career was evident in the turnout of generations of supporters who packed the visitors’ side of Britton Gymnasium for a June 2 ceremony renaming...

The ceremonial start of a construction project that will modernize Charter School of Morgan Hill’s campus March 3 was billed as a “groundbreaking,” but it was more of a celebration that aimed to engage and entertain every student at the K-8 school.  The vast, $16.5...

Valedictorian Kelli St. Clair Friends, family and staff, it is an honor to be here today, and I am extremely grateful for the pleasure of speaking on behalf of my fellow classmates. On our final day of public education, let us reminisce on all the...

As a high school civics teacher at Ann Sobrato High School in Morgan Hill, veteran educator Jeanie Wallace asks her students to believe in the democratic process. As a staff representative with the Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers, Wallace helped recruit candidates for the local...

Locals attend Biola University Morgan Hill residents Caleb Hernandez (Business Administration major) and Caden Leedy (Engineering Physics major) began attending the fall session of Biola University. Also an incoming freshman at Biola is San Martin resident Jordan Mendoza, who is majoring in Biological Sciences, according...