Schools

Ground was broken this week for $7.2 million in upgrades, which includes a modified multi-use structure, at Paradise Valley Engineering Academy.

For a second straight year, the Morgan Hill Unified School District graduated nearly 90 percent of its students, according to data released April 11 by the California Department of Education.

Ann Sobrato High School’s gymnasium was invaded by aspiring musicians from all of Morgan Hill Unified School District’s secondary schools for a March 29 free community concert.

Extended and, at times, rocky negotiations between local school district and teachers union leaders came to an end March 29 as the two parties reached a tentative agreement after about a year at the table.

Although the school board offered its support for a shift to employing full-time athletic directors at each of the district’s high schools, Morgan Hill Unified’s brass stopped short of guaranteeing the positions and only requested approval of a revised job description.

Nearly 100 district teachers took advantage of the Teacher’s Aid Coalition’s bi-annual classroom supplies shopping spree March 15 at P.A. Walsh STEAM Academy.

Morgan Hill Unified’s governing body will vote on three management positions that district leadership is pushing forward on the March 21 agenda: a new construction project supervisor as well as revised job descriptions for an athletic director and a construction project planner.

Morgan Hill Unified’s elementary school students welcomed special guest readers from throughout the community March 2 for the district’s fourth annual Read Across America Read-in event.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s governing body will reconvene for its first of two March board of education meetings Tuesday after only single monthly sessions over the last three months.

Twenty Sobrato High School students, proudly donning their blue and gold corduroy Future Farmers of America jackets, performed admirably at the Santa Clara Sectional Public Speaking Competition, held Feb. 11 at San Benito High School in Hollister.