Schools

Gavilan College President Kathleen Rose will host a series of “Coffee & Conversations” community get-togethers throughout August and October to inform residents about what’s happening at the local community college.

A public hearing on the district’s Mitigated Negative Declaration of the Peet Road property will be conducted at the Aug. 1 school board meeting, less than a week after the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control held a public forum detailing the cleanup plan for the future home of S.G. Borello Elementary School.

Representatives from the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control did their best rope-a-dope impression as they took everything local residents threw at them before countering during a well-attended July 27 meeting on the plan to clean toxic soil on a proposed northeast Morgan Hill school site.

A summer departure by Morgan Hill Unified School District’s director of special education has created a domino effect of in-house promotions, according to a pair of July 19 press releases.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s top official has lined up a discussion item as part of an Aug. 15 board of education meeting that will cover the high school mathematics program.

New courses offered by Gavilan College in drone technology and hospitality and tourism management are coming to the Morgan Hill area for the Fall 2017 semester.

Establishing a collaborative environment amongst staff to allow students to reach their highest potential is what new Live Oak High School principal Maria Reitano has set out to do in the 2017-18 school year.

State environmental officials will host a public meeting regarding the local school district’s Removal Action Workplan for the proposed Borello elementary school site on Peet Road from 6 to 8 p.m. July 27 at the El Toro Room inside the Community and Cultural Center.

The Rotary Club of Morgan Hill distributed $22,000 in college scholarships to 21 Morgan Hill high school seniors, according to a June 20 announcement.