Schools

The Rotary Club of Morgan Hill honored 12 local students with Outstanding Student Awards at a Feb. 15 awards luncheon.

Meet Jose Carlos Amaya Rountree, a 17-year-old senior at Live Oak High School and the Times' "Student of the Week."

Claudia Rossi of Morgan Hill is the new president of the Santa Clara County Board of Education. The county school board on Dec. 11 elected its officers for 2020. Rossi, who was elected to the board in 2014, was named president, and Kathleen King, appointed...

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.

A glimpse out of the second-story classroom window at the new Britton Middle School offers students a stunning view of El Toro Mountain to the west. It’s a stark contrast to the poorly lit, dingy classroom spaces that Bobcat staff and students had grown accustomed...

Nik Groen, 16, a Live Oak High School junior, started flying when he was 14. He recently took his first solo flight, after flying with his instructor, Charles Jackson, pictured at left, once a month for more than a year."It's a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of determination," he said. Now that he's met one goal, his first solo flight, he's looking ahead to earning his private pilot's license. He hopes to do that when he's 17, he said. To earn the license, he has to pass a written test and complete longer flights. The final test is a 'check flight' with an instructor he's never flown with, similar to the road test a driver must pass to become licensed.