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Santa Clara Education Desk: July 17, 2013
July 24, 2013
Nit-Picking Over CBSA Conference Costs Last week’s Santa Clara Unified School Board meeting illustrated Parkinson’s Law of Committees: The amount...
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Santa Clara Education Desk: July 10, 2013
July 17, 2013
New Common Core Standards On the Horizon Like it or not, the new Common Core (www.commoncore.org) education standards are being...
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The History of Santa Clara University in a Nutshell
July 10, 2013
College and Mission City Grow Up Together It was 1851. The original 49er’s Gold Fever was peaking and, in 1850,...
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Stampolis Accused of Harassing Student
June 26, 2013
While Michele Ryan was complaining to the Anti-Defamation League last week about Santa Clara High School senior Sami Elamad calling...
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Superintendent Bobbie Plough Retires from the Santa Clara Unified School District
June 26, 2013
Superintendent Bobbie Plough is a happy mother awaiting her son’s upcoming wedding at the end of June. To get ready...
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Santa Clara Education Desk: June 19, 2013
June 26, 2013
At a marathon seven-hour, standing room only SCUSD board meeting on June 13, indignation continued about the resignations of some...
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Santa Clara Education Desk: June 5, 2013
June 12, 2013
New Principals Announced Three new principals were appointed at the May 30 special meeting of the Santa Clara Unified School...
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Santa Clara Education Desk: May 29, 2013
June 5, 2013
Micromanagement 101 “A regular criticism of local [school] boards is the tendency of board members to confuse monitoring of key...
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Getting to Know Chef Daniel Arias
June 5, 2013
At his first job, Chef Daniel Arias cleaned bathrooms inside a restaurant. After that, he worked at a hotel where...
