Schools

Update: The decision on the allocation of funds has been moved to the November 1 school board meeting as (district officials) need additional time to gather information to respond to questions presented at the Oct. 11 study session, according to district staff.

As the only school board candidate in her trustee area for the November election, San Martin resident Teresa Murillo has already locked up a seat on Morgan Hill Unified School District’s governing body for the next four years.

Morgan Hill Unified School District and the American Association of University Women encourage local families to participate in a free screening of the documentary “Screenagers,” which will be held 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at Ann Sobrato High School (401 Burnett Avenue).

One school board candidate has raised about $19,000 more than his only challenger in the Nov. 8 election, with most of the funds coming from an organization based more than 2,400 miles away. Another school board hopeful owes nearly $8,000 in unpaid bills to a Gilroy-based campaign consulting firm in a race in which she is running unopposed.

A forum on the Borello Elementary School property, a presentation by City of Morgan Hill staff on its Below Market Rate Housing Program, a Measure G quarterly report and Charter School of Morgan Hill’s annual update are all on the Oct. 4 docket for Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education meeting.

Whether scores are up or down, good or bad, API or CAASPP, local school leaders have not put too much stock into state standardized test results in recent years.

How harmful soil toxins returned to a 10-acre plot of land in northeast Morgan Hill where local school officials plan to build a brand new $20 million elementary school remains a mystery.

Parent volunteers at all Morgan Hill Unified School District schools are now required to have fingerprinting and tuberculosis testing done prior to working on school grounds, according to local school officials.

By a 6-0 vote at an Aug. 16 special meeting, the local board of education approved school district leadership’s plan for developing an individualized learning secondary school to help lessen the blow for hundreds of former Silicon Valley Flex students hung out to dry.