Schools

Fit for Learning, a program by the Santa Clara County Office of Education to combat child obesity, is being expanded to reach students in grades kindergarten through sixth.

As a part of district-wide emergency preparedness planning, elementary schools are asking parents to prepare an eight-hour emergency "comfort kit" for their children. The kits, which will be stored in the child's classroom, are designed to help both kids and parents stay calm when they are separated in an emergency.

At 10:30 a.m. today, a group of Hispanic students walked out of