Schools

Registration for Spring 2016 Semester classes is now open at Gavilan College, where current and new students can apply online or in person at the three different campuses.

Local voters will decide on something its board of education failed to do before the end of 2015 as residents will take to the polls for the June 7 presidential primary election: select a seventh school board trustee.

James Dent, a co-founder of Navigator Schools that runs Gilroy and Hollister Prep Schools, has decided to step down from his position as executive director at the end of this school year, according to a press release from the school.

Promoting snowboarding to local youth, Jeff Boliba, the Vice President of Global Resorts for Burton Snowboards, and the Burton Learn to Ride Group visited Nordstrom Elementary School on Wednesday to show students the fundamentals of the winter sport.

It was a long time coming, but 14 former students were presented with their high school diplomas during a special graduation ceremony Jan. 6 inside the Live Oak High School Theater.

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In a continuing effort to change the landscape of Morgan Hill Unified School District schools, the local board of education unanimously approved the transition of Paradise Valley Elementary School into an engineering focus academy for the 2016-17 year.

The year in education in Morgan Hill provided its own narrative that kept taxpayers, parents and even students scratching their heads, wondering if local elected trustees would ever be able to agree on what’s best for about 8,600 children who attend district schools.

A 12-acre plot of land nestled within an affluent northeast Morgan Hill neighborhood is again targeted as the future site of a new $20 million public elementary school, according to school officials.

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