Schools

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,...

Election officials in Santa Clara County on May 9 began mailing ballots for the June 7 primary to the county’s one million registered voters, who will cast 2022's first ballots in local and state races and on some ballot measures. The vote-by-mail ballots can be...

Santa Clara County branches of the American Association of University Women will celebrate March as Women’s History Month with a special webinar on the 50th anniversary of Title IX.  The public is invited to register for “Title IX: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You”...

While California K-12 students will still be required to wear masks once the state's indoor mask mandate ends this week, one of the state’s top health officials said Monday that a decision on in-school mask requirements could be made by the end of the...

Muriki named to Dean’s List Venkata Harsh Muriki, of Morgan Hill, made the Dean's List for the Fall 2021 semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Dean’s List designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 3.0 or higher academic average for...

Students, teachers and staff at local schools returned from winter break to an “all time high” number of weekly reported Covid-19 cases, according to Morgan Hill Unified School District staff. For the week of Jan. 3-9, a total of 177 students and 24 staff members...

A student who was assaulted by multiple classmates at Live Oak High School in November is still recovering from injuries he suffered in the attack, according to his mother, who recently addressed the local school board to ask for more action to reduce on-campus...

Six juvenile Live Oak High School students were arrested on suspicion of violent felonies after an altercation on campus during school hours Nov. 18, according to police. Morgan Hill Police officers responded to the school, 1505 East Main Ave., at about 10:45am on a report...

Morgan Hill Unified School District officials earlier this month celebrated the completion and opening of a new band performance facility at Jackson Academy of Math & Music. The new multi-purpose room and renovation project at JAMM, which is located on Fountain Oaks Drive in east...

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...