Schools

My name is Japheth Negash, and I am a junior at Ann Sobrato High School. I’m 16 years old and have been a resident of Morgan Hill for my entire life.

School officials must mine their way through $5.5 million in budgetary cuts unless they can generate more revenue to offset the district’s deficit spending that began last year, according to a “Right Sizing the Budget” presentation at a board of education meeting earlier this month.

After an extensive national search, the Board of Directors for South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium appointed Linda Vaughn to the position of President/CEO at their Sept. 21 meeting, according to a Sept. 21 announcement.

This past Monday, Sept. 11, Sobrato Future Farmers of America continued a tradition that started in 2010: creating a memorial to honor the victims of the terrorist attack in 2001.

Bringing an anti-bullying message along with him to El Toro Elementary School, Harlem Globetrotter Anthony “Buckets” Blakes entertained local students with his flashy basketball skills at a pair of Sept. 14 assemblies on campus.

A 40-minute board study session on Naviance, a college- and career readiness platform that helps connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals, is planned between the Sept. 19 closed and open session in the upstairs conference room of district headquarters.

It’s the sixth day of school and students at Voices College-Bound Language Academy are already at ease with their new surroundings. Mostly Latino students, donning the school’s trademark yellow-and-purple collared shirts tucked into their khakis, walk through the halls of the Jarvis Drive facility in an orderly, disciplined manner.

Two local high school students were named as semifinalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program earlier this week.

A recent self-evaluation completed by local school board trustees reveals sharp disagreements within the seven-member board on their openness to the public and the relationship between themselves and district staff, among other categories.

Gavilan College removed 17 out-of-state football players—all but one of them African American—from the team and campus last week, claiming the athletes had received prohibited transportation, housing and food benefits and were improperly recruited.