Schools

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.

A switch to a trustee area election system for the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education seats has brought out four first-time challengers in three districts up for grabs in November.

Trustee Bob Benevento will keep his interim president designation for at least another two weeks since the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s governing body tabled its reorganization vote Aug. 16 for a second straight meeting.

The first day of the 2016-17 school year for many Morgan Hill Unified School District schools came with transition—most notably for sixth graders making the leap to middle school for the first time.

If all seven trustees make it to this Tuesday’s Morgan Hill Unified School District board of education meeting, a new school board president and vice president could finally be voted in.

Citing three specific factors, current School Board President Bob Benevento decided not to file his candidacy paperwork and will not seek re-election as a Morgan Hill Unified School District trustee in the November election.