Schools

Cap-and-gown season is creeping up on graduating seniors and their pride-filled parents, and Morgan Hill Unified School District’s end-of-the-school-year schedule includes two June 3 high school graduations.

Morgan Hill Unified School District has recently hired three new faculty members for key leadership roles: director of elementary education, a middle school principal and the director of grounds and maintenance, according to district staff. Dr. Julie Aguirre-Jacinto is MHUSD’s new Director of Elementary Education,...

A move to officially reprimand a school board trustee for his highly publicized and damaging email escapades that were exposed late last year was thwarted Feb. 2 when the six-member governing body deadlocked 3-3 on whether to take action.

Lourdes Robledo, a second-grade teacher at San Martin Gwinn Elementary School in San Martin, will be one of 31 teachers honored by the Santa Clara County Office of Education Sept. 26 at the 44th annual Teacher Recognition Celebration at the Heritage Theatre in Campbell.

A mandatory public hearing on a charter school petition and a possible vote on spending millions for management costs on Measure G bond projects are two of the hot topics to be discussed Tuesday evening at the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education meeting.

After a six-month delay, plus a change in the nearly $40 million work order, the Britton Middle School Transformation Project finally broke ground June 5 in front a modest crowd of Morgan Hill Unified School District staff, school site faculty, school board trustees and Bobcat student band members.

Morgan Hill students Mark Holmstrom, a junior at Live Oak High School and sophomore Theresa McLaughlin of Sobrato High School are the two winners of the Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship.