What’s the job of a local school board? What’s the proper role for individual board members? The recent series of highly contentious Santa Clara Unified board meetings spotlights the importance of these fundamental issues – you could call it getting “back to basics” – about school governance. The California...
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SCUSD Budget Taking a Turn for the Better A look at Santa Clara Unified School District’s (SCUSD) $130 million budget for the...
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Education Desk: Project Labor Agreements for Measure C Construction? West Valley-Mission Board Hears Arguments
On Tuesday, December 11, West Valley-Mission Community College District (WVMCCCD) Board of Trustees held a public hearing on the pros and cons...
“His explanations explanatory of explanations explained was interminable,” Abraham Lincoln once said of his political rival Stephen Douglas. He could have been...
Last week’s 7-hour standing-room-only Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD) board meeting brought to mind many clichés, foremost among them, “cruel and...
What do Millikin Basics+ Elementary School, Buchser Middle School, the Wilson Education Options campus and Peterson Middle School have in common? Solar...
A four-week, all-expense-paid trip to Bangladesh may not be at the top of your travel list, but 16-year-old Wilcox High School junior...
SCUSD: Out With the Old, In With the New Following what was likely the most contentious school board election in recent memory,...
Girls Achieving in Non-traditional Subjects (GAINS) is a 12-year-old program of the Santa Clara Unified School District to encourage young women to...
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Westwood Burglary Leaves Students Without New Technology and Funds from Fundraiser
On Friday morning, October 26th, a targeted burglary at Westwood Elementary left students without 10 new iPads and one MacBook Pro. Westwood...