Local school news, educational institutes’ news reporting in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.
Learning Mandarin is about culture as well as language for the K – 8 CLIP students at John Muir Elementary School and Joaquin Miller Middle School in San Jose. CLIP (Cupertino Language Immersion Program) is an Alternative School Program of the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD), which includes 23 K – 8 schools (no high … Read more
Baybots (Team #65125), a robotics team from Sunnyvale, has been crowned Champion’s First Place winner at the FIRST LEGO League Peninsula District Championship, held at Palo Alto High School. Their outstanding performance earned them an invitation to the FIRST World Festival in Houston, TX, where they will compete against top teams from around the globe. … Read more
Perspective can be a powerful, perhaps even, sometimes, a game-changing tool. A 16-0 baseball game typically lends one to believe that the team scoring 16 runs is perfectly pleased with the outcome, while the squad shutout on the scoreboard is definitely dejected, right? Well, at least for one afternoon, the opposite rang true after the … Read more
From school board and city council members to parents and local firefighters, members of the Pomeroy Elementary School community in Santa Clara turned out in force to help spread the joy of reading. The school’s annual Read Across America event on March 3 was a rousing success. For the younger students, it was a chance … Read more
Santa Clara University (SCU) demonstrated its faith in science as well as God on March 7. Faculty, staff, and students at the Jesuit Catholic university walked out of classes, labs and offices to Stand Up for Science at noon. Gathering outside the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, they rallied in solidarity with others nationwide—from … Read more
Students who experienced homelessness in high school would get additional financial assistance to attend three California State University campuses under a pilot program proposed in the California Legislature this week. Senate Bill 685 would cover the remaining cost of attendance after financial aid at San Jose State and two other Cal State campuses, including tuition … Read more
California officials are giving students an extra month to meet the state financial aid priority deadline, saying fewer high school seniors have finished paperwork so far this year due to delays in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and uncertainty about federal education policy and immigration enforcement. The California Student Aid Commission, whose executive … Read more
The Santa Clara Bruins varsity boys’ soccer squad secured its second-straight, nail-biting playoff victory on Wednesday night, Feb. 26. After opening the Central Coast Section (CCS) Division III playoffs with an extremely tense shootout win (1-1, 9-8 PKs), the dramatic climax in round two ended with a brilliant strike during second-half stoppage time. With the … Read more
With wildfires raging in Los Angeles County, the need for disaster response is more prescient than ever. Toward that end, Mission College will begin offering a Bachelor of Science in emergency services administration next year. “You see the price we can pay when fires break out in areas that don’t have adequate fire protection,” said … Read more
Exciting history was made near the northern border of Santa Clara and San Jose on Saturday night, Feb. 22. The MacDonald Condors boys’ basketball team took part in the school’s first-ever Central Coast Section (CCS) playoff game—and won. Now, there are some within the CCS community who question the validity of lower-division playoff brackets. Five … Read more