Santa Clara County Education Digest

After more than 20 years of steady growth, Palo Alto has seen a recent reduction in the number of students biking to campus. Now, city and school officials are looking to restore momentum to the Safe Routes to School program.

Filipino students at San Jose State University said honoring a key leader in the farmworkers rights movement is long overdue—and they staged a rally to make their intentions known.

Palo Alto’s newest housing proposal has a very specific aim: to help teachers in the local school district afford a place to live in one of the most expensive places in California.

More than a year of mudslinging between the higher education systems has led to delays and anger over the issue of awarding bachelor’s degrees at community colleges.

A recently released email exchange reveals offensive comments that Foothill-De Anza board member Gilbert Wong allegedly made to De Anza College President Lloyd Holmes about his skin color.

Action Day Primary Plus, which rents part of the former Cooper School site from the Mountain View Whisman School District, is proposing to grow its footprint, adding new buildings and expanding its parking lot.

A new study by UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs analyzed 18 years of data from the California Healthy Kids Survey to find massive drops in violence and weapons incidents throughout California.

After 38 years at Los Altos High School, Principal Wynne Satterwhite announced April 7 that she plans to retire after this school year.

Seeking to resolve issues they say have long plagued Stanford University, graduate student workers intend to form a union and seek higher pay and increased benefits.

Fremont Union High School District is accepting applications for a vacant seat on its Board of Trustees, following the death of a long-time board member.

California high school students will be required to pass an ethnic studies class to graduate, starting with the class of 2030. That means the state needs lots of new ethnic studies teachers.

The Foothill-De Anza Community College District's board voted this week to formally censure board member Gilbert Wong over harassing and discriminatory comments that he made to De Anza College's president.

The El Camino Health and the El Camino Healthcare District donated nearly $1 million during the 2022 calendar year to Santa Clara County community partners in an effort to improve nutrition education.

The new Campbell library is well on its way to completion, thanks to grant funding. The city of Campbell and the Santa Clara County Library District received $4,718,450 from the California State Library’s Building Forward Grant Program.

Talk about project labor agreements crops up at Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Trustees meetings once in a while. On March 23, the trustees decided to move ahead on a pilot PLA.

Retirements and job changes are expected to bring new leaders to two Palo Alto schools this fall, with an interim principal taking over permanently at a third campus.

Marion Joseph died last year, but her years-long battle to improve the reading skills of California youngsters through phonics instruction lives on.

County officials could soon fulfill one of their long-term goals—making it easier for teachers to live where they work. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is voting to secure approximately five acres in Cupertino to construct affordable housing for educators.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to delay state funds to student housing because of the state’s budget deficit. Lawmakers have different ideas on what kind of compromise might be reached.

Randall is a dual-immersion elementary school that has provided education in both English and Spanish.

The California Teachers Association has consistently opposed legislation that would require dyslexia screening for all students in early grades. Yet many teachers say early intervention is key.

Seeking to cement a tax exemption for faculty homes on its campus, Stanford filed a suit against Santa Clara County contending that these residences should be treated like other educational facilities.

Four candidates are vying for a vacant school board seat on the Alum Rock Union School District Board of Trustees after Ernesto Bejarano resigned on Feb. 10, citing personal reasons.

Located in Los Altos Hills, Foothill College was part of the initial pilot with a bachelor's in dental hygiene and gained approval to also offer a bachelor's degree in respiratory therapy.

San Jose has worked hard to renovate and reopen its libraries, but the Alviso Branch Library has been historically left behind. North San Jose's only library serves the biggest population, but has seen the smallest amount of funding.

Two of Santa Clara County’s largest school districts took police off campuses in 2020. Three years later, advocates said the districts have expanded mental health programs and other services in lieu of funding police contracts.

Parents voiced anger over plans to eliminate programs for students with moderate to severe disabilities at two elementary schools.

Most Santa Clara County school districts do not impose term limits. This means boards that never change can become unresponsive to the communities they serve, experts said. But board members themselves said maintaining historical knowledge can provide stable leadership.

On the opening day of Black History Month, the College Board is making history by releasing details of its first Advanced Placement class on African American studies for high school students.

With its new home at Children's Health Council in Palo Alto, the Schwab Learning Center's reach is now expanding beyond Stanford to the wider community.

The Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District's board has paved the way to add an ethnic studies class for all incoming ninth graders by updating its graduation requirements to include the course.

It’s time to drop “interim” from Superintendent Dr. Gary Waddell’s title.