Schools

Local school district leaders are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to finding required classroom space for a new charter school looking to expand its operations for the 2016-17 school year.

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation will contribute salad bars to all 14 MHUSD schools, thanks to the Lam Research "Heart & Soles 5K" run/walk that helps fund the foundation’s "Salad Bars for Schools" initiative.

A new firestorm between charter and public school officials is brewing in Morgan Hill as local school district leadership recommended two charter schools share the same aging campus in the northernmost outskirts of town for the 2016-17 school year.

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Guest reader Jim Carrillo, the director of technology for the Morgan Hill Unified School District, dressed as Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” character as he read to P.A. Walsh Elementary School students during the second annual Read Across America “Read-in” event, held March 2 at elementary schools across the district.

The aroma of tasty deliciousness emanated from the central kitchen at Live Oak High School the morning of March 3 as a select number of students and faculty members tasted a baker’s dozen of some new potential cafeteria food menu items.

The 18th annual South Valley Wine Auction and Food Fest returns to the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road, from 6 to 10 p.m. April 1 for a special evening that benefits local athletics.

A federal judge tweaked her initial court order for the release of sensitive student data to a statewide parent group of special education advocates March 1, as a result of a “large number of objections” from parents who mailed in opt-out forms to the U.S. District Court in Sacramento.

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Students yell, “Quiet on the set!,” sporadically throughout the 50-minute period Feb. 24, as the video-filming of Britton Middle School’s Bobcat TV is about to record another cut of the four-day-a-week show produced in Veronica Andrade’s class.