Schools

When one of the Charter School of Morgan Hill’s Nigerian Dwarf goats gave birth to her litter on the campus farm in January, the animal’s handlers brought three newborn kids into the office for warmth and to get acquainted with their mother.

Live Oak High School students alerted school officials to a threatening post on a social media site by a fellow classmate Feb. 28.

The Rotary Club of Morgan Hill honored 12 local students with Outstanding Student Awards at a Feb. 15 awards luncheon.

Students from Alissa Weinstein’s class at Charter School of Morgan Hill are poets, and now they know it.

Students at Morgan Hill Unified School District’s most sought-after elementary school are attending class in decades-old portables with constantly leaky roofs, saturated carpets and the smell of decaying matter, according to teachers at Nordstrom Elementary School.

Ten Morgan Hill student mathematicians are headed to Stanford, after scoring big in the local MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition and qualifying for the Northern California State Competition in March.

With a busy teacher recruiting season on the horizon, Morgan Hill Unified School District staff noted that nearly half the local workforce of educators was discovered at the many recruitment events throughout the state—and even one outside the country.

Gavilan College received nearly $1 million from the California Strong Workforce Program for the upcoming academic year to expand Career Technical Education (CTE) programs leading to high demand, high wage jobs in the region, according to a Feb. 6 announcement.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education and district leadership will gather Feb. 7 for its only regular school board meeting this month.