Schools

Gavilan College honored its largest graduating class in school history May 24, awarding 1,779 associate degrees and certificates during a ceremony at the college’s Gilroy campus. It was Gavilan’s 105th commencement ceremony.  “Class of 2025, congratulations. You are a part of history,” Gavilan College Superintendent...

Students yell, “Quiet on the set!,” sporadically throughout the 50-minute period Feb. 24, as the video-filming of Britton Middle School’s Bobcat TV is about to record another cut of the four-day-a-week show produced in Veronica Andrade’s class.

An advocacy organization that represents 40,000 part-time college instructors across California is urging Governor Jerry Brown to make a sea change in how part-timers at schools like Gavilan College—which depends heavily on part-time faculty—are compensated.

Santa Clara County is in search of a new education leader after its office of education and superintendent agreed to part ways, according to a Nov. 9 press release.

The Morgan Hill school board directed district staff to prepare

Gavilan College is looking to require all students and employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as in-person classes resume in the near future. At its first public meeting under the same roof since March 2020, the college’s Board of Trustees on July 13 voted unanimously...

An embattled board of education trustee attempting to work his way back to respectability among certain members of the public recently lashed out at the district’s bond oversight committee for violating their own bylaws in order to plan his demise.

Eleven Morgan Hill residents attending Gavilan College were among 91 students to make the President’s Honor Roll for having a 3.5 or higher grade point average in at least 15 units during a single semester, according to a June 8 press release.

Britton Middle School science teacher George Flores, an inspirational educator and pioneer who allowed local kids the ability to explore far away places they may never have reached, passed away in the early morning hours June 20 at Hospice of Stanford Hospital, according to district staff.