Santa Clara County Local News: Education


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Image caption: California's sprawling public education system encompasses approximately 10,500 schools.
California’s Education System: How the Bureaucracy Works

How California's extensive public school system is organized and managed, explained.

Image caption: California's library system dates back 171 years.
How Cool Are Libraries?

California has gone from one library to more than 1,100 in the last 171 years.

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07/10/2024
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Terri Eves Knudsen on July 2 announced her resignation from the Morgan Hill Unified School District Board of Trustees, nearly two years into her four-year term.

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07/08/2024
A program for low-income, first-generation STEM students at community colleges is receiving millions of dollars to expand across the state.

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07/01/2024
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Parents and community advocates are calling for new leadership in San Jose's largest public school district following a county report that highlights numerous issues — which the district disputes.

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07/01/2024
Small and low-income school officials say the bond measure deal is unfair. The money is allocated through matching grants, so wealthier districts that can raise more local funds will get more money from the state.

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06/27/2024
Negotiations over how to distribute millions of dollars of property tax revenue between the City of Mountain View and the Whisman School District are at an impasse.

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06/21/2024
Three out of five seats on the Mountain View Whisman school board are open for election on the November ballot.

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06/14/2024
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The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District announced yesterday it had refinanced some of its debt at a lower interest rate.

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06/10/2024
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Voters in the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District narrowly approved the district’s first parcel tax in more than a dozen years by a narrow eight-vote margin, according to the election offices in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

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06/08/2024
The Milpitas Unified School District received a Golden State Pathways Program grant of $820,00 to help prepare high school students to enter the workforce.

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06/07/2024
The Sunnyvale City Council approved $23 million to move forward with construction of a new library in Lakewood Park.

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06/07/2024
The two-day CalMatters Ideas Festival wrapped on June 6 with more than a dozen events examining critical policy issues impacting the lives of millions of Californians.

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06/06/2024
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Stratford School’s Los Gatos campuses are kicking-off their Summer@Stratford summer camp programs this week.

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06/06/2024
A panel of labor experts at the CalMatters Ideas Festival say California workers should have more access to more apprenticeships that pay more. Barriers still exist, especially for women and low-income Californians.

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06/05/2024
EdSource reports that police are dispatched thousands of times per school day across California.

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06/04/2024
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San Jose teachers are protesting a broken promise made by the largest school district in the city.

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06/03/2024
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Santa Clara County may lose millions of property tax dollars to charter schools while teetering on the edge of a fiscal cliff.

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05/30/2024
The state is directly investing money for low-income students and all newborns to attend college. After two years, the program is still not widely known by the students who need the most financial assistance.

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05/28/2024
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North Sunnyvale residents will be able to access the city’s library resources closer to home by next year.

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05/28/2024
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The 40th Morgan Hill Mushroom Festival unfolded May 25 and 26 at the Downtown Amphitheater grounds and Depot Street.

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05/28/2024
After University of California students were arrested or suspended for protests, student workers are striking at three campuses. The Office of President says the strike violates the union contract.
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