Schools

Parents opposed to the school district’s new grade level reconfiguration, namely moving sixth grade into the middle school sites, are not going gently into that good night as witnessed at the Sept. 15 school board meeting.

With an increasing need for quality classified employees to staff school sites and district offices, the Santa Clara County Office of Education is launching its inaugural Santa Clara County Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at the 1290 Ridder Park Drive offices.

Whispers around town of a possible recall movement against trustees on Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education got much louder Sept. 15 when President Bob Benevento was served with a document calling for his removal from the governing body.

Engineering, computer coding, robotics and project-based learning were some of the key points outlined by Paradise Valley Elementary School principal Swati Dagar in her effort to convince Morgan Hill Unified School District’s board of education to allow a new curriculum focus at the site.

On Sept. 11, Sobrato Future Farmers of America leadership arrived at school in the early hours of the morning before their classmates arrived to set up a display to commemorate the loss of 2,977 lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.

Months of hullabaloo over what trustee area map was best suited for the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s change from an at-large to a by-district election system turned into a seamless decision at Tuesday’s board of education meeting.

Paradise Valley Elementary School may soon become the district’s fourth magnet school, following in the footsteps of Jackson, P.A. Walsh and San Martin/Gwinn.

In six weeks, 36 fifth and sixth grade girls from P.A. Walsh Elementary School will put to the test what they’ve learned in a special club designed to keep them active  and healthy.

Half of the 5,059 students tested within the Morgan Hill Unified School District either met or exceeded state standards in English Language Arts/Literacy, according to the newly released California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.

More than 90 students, filling three classrooms from transitional kindergarten through first grade, made up the inaugural class of Voices-Morgan Hill charter school, which opened for their first day of school Sept. 8.