It is not hard to understand why Gary Gillmor chose to donate $250,000 to name Mission College’s newest building, when you learn that his love for Mission College is...
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Last week the Santa Clara Unified School Board accepted “school annual report cards” (SARC) – a state-required exhaustive annual report that each...
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Resolved: Boxers are superior to briefs. Resolved: Nice guys finish last. Resolved: The United States should openly condemn China’s human rights violations....
What’s the job of a local school board? What’s the proper role for individual board members? The recent series of highly contentious...
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...
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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...