CalMatters: California schools are running out of money
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...
Charter school granted nearly $14M in Prop 51 funds
Leaders for the Charter School of Morgan Hill confirmed this week that they have been granted nearly $14 million in Proposition 51 state rehabilitation funds to help revitalize their aging campus.
Capriano neighborhood: Central High is not welcome
Nearly a dozen community members were hopping mad Tuesday evening when the Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Education voted 6-1 to approve the $7 million modernization of the defunct Burnett Elementary School and transform it into the new location for Central Continuation High School.
Spotlight of the Week: A Day at the Capitol
NORDSTROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teacher KEN FARRELL'S fourth-grade class went on a field trip May 2 to Sacramento and visited the Railroad Museum, Sutter's Fort, Old Sacramento and the State Capitol. While at the Capitol, the class met Lieutenant Gov. John Garamendi who took time out of his busy schedule and talked to the class about his job. The children really enjoyed the opportunity to meet the Lieutenant Governor.
The school budget dilemma: $2 million more cuts
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.
Defense files a motion to dismiss in Live Oak T-shirt lawsuit
Lawyers for the Morgan Hill Unified District, former Principal
United sound of local bands
Student bands from Live Oak and Ann Sobrato High Schools as well as Britton and Martin Murphy Middle Schools and Jackson Academy of Math & Music performed together, as seen in the photograph, in an April 13 inside the Sobrato gymnasium.
