Schools

Students at St. Catherine’s Catholic School are prepared to dazzle and delight audience members this weekend with performances of the musical, “The Little Mermaid.”

Under the gaze of family and friends, three incoming Morgan Hill Unified School board trustees took the oath of office and assumed their place on the school board dais Tuesday evening at district offices, located at 15600 Concord Circle.

Before Morgan Hill Unified School District breaks ground on a new $20 million elementary school in an affluent northeast neighborhood, district staff are exploring the best ways to clean up the contaminated soil on the donated 10-acre piece of former farmland.

If one drove by Nordstrom Elementary at the crack of dawn Wednesday, they might think the school started selling concert tickets for the line that wrapped around the school with people clutching blankets, lawn chairs and tents. 

With school district leaders taking a strong stance against the validity of the latest standardized test scores, trustees on Morgan Hill Unified’s board of education had their own takes on the data from the 2017 Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

School district officials have launched a Seamless Summer Feeding Program that offers free lunches to children up to age 18, according to a Morgan Hill Unified School District announcement.

The Rotary Club of Morgan Hill has awarded $26,000 in college scholarships to 25 local high school seniors.  The $2,000 Ralph and Rose Fitzsimmons Agricultural Scholarship for outstanding achievement and commitment to agricultural studies was awarded to Holly Wilson of Sobrato High School, says a...

Charters are still public schools. It’s the phrase both Principal Paige Cisewski of Charter School of Morgan Hill and Head of School Jean Southland of the Silicon Valley Flex Academy have repeatedly said before and emphasized.