Schools

Each month, the principals of Live Oak and Sobrato high schools choose a "Student of the Week" (two from each high school per month). Live Oak senior Guadalupe Munoz, 18, is this week's Student of the Week. She's also our last Student of the Week for the 2012-13 school year.

The Morgan Hill Unified School District is still deciding whether to accept Navigator Schools’ petition to open a new charter school in the city for 2014-15, and has instead requested a 30-day extension of the mandatory June 15 deadline to vote.

Topics ranging from technology enhancements, to more after school enrichment programs to class-size reductions were brought to attention by local parents during the May 29 community input meetings held at 10 different school sites in Morgan Hill.

An estimated 170-foot, green caterpillar was recently spotted on the front office building at San Martin Gwinn Elementary School in San Martin.

More than 150 community members attended the first annual Jackson Academy of Math and Music dinner, silent auction and raffle, held April 26 at Guglielmo Winery in Morgan Hill.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Education unanimously approved more than $5 million in construction costs at its May 29 meeting for the nearly $7 million modernization project at the old Burnett Elementary School site on Tilton Avenue in northwest Morgan Hill.

When it comes to the 2012 Base Academic Performance Index – California’s yardstick for measuring student achievement – the Morgan Hill Unified School District still has an uphill climb to catch up with other state schools with similar “educational challenges.”

The Morgan Hill Unified School District will host simultaneous community input meetings, regarding the use of Measure G funds within the district, at 10 different school locations from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 29.

Each month, the principals of Live Oak and Sobrato High Schools choose a total of four students (two from each school) to spotlight. Sobrato senior Victoria Tu, 17, is this week's Student of the Week.

Parent Kelly Dunham, a former home and school club member at the old Burnett Elementary School, wants to know what will become of the welcoming mural that her son, as well as all one-time students of the former northwest Morgan Hill school, helped paint.