Local school news, educational institutes’ news reporting in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale.
Scott Lane Elementary staff will be able to charge their electric vehicles while in class thanks to new EV chargers. At the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, Sept. 12, the District decided on a pay structure for staff, students and the community to use the chargers. Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Scott Lane Elementary … Read more
California State University and the University of California (UC) are welcoming student activists back to campus this fall with revamped protest rules that signal a harder line on encampments, barriers and, under certain circumstances, the wearing of face masks. Cal State, the nation’s largest public university system, was first to issue its policy Thursday, a … Read more
The University of California admitted a record number of California resident first-year students for the upcoming fall term, offering a spot to 93,920 of them, the university system announced on July 31. UC also made more admission offers to community college transfer students and to low-income students. Latino students were the largest demographic group of … Read more
San Jose State University (SJSU) will receive nearly $2 million from the federal government to help fund STEM research. On Aug. 21, U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) – Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee – along with her colleagues, U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), … Read more
School is in session. The Santa Clara Unified Board of Trustees had a construction-themed meeting to discuss the Project Labor Agreement for Bracher Elementary School as well as pool construction at Santa Clara and Wilcox high schools. Project Labor Agreement At the Thursday, Aug. 22 meeting, the Board got a status update on the … Read more
Santa Clara students still have a lot of catching up to do. Pandemic learning loss is still rampant across the country, but Santa Clara Unified School District’s (SCUSD) plan to combat it continues to ramp up. Being out of the classroom during the pandemic devastated test scores and other measures of student success. Repairing the … Read more
It takes a lot to get a kid to end their summer early and head back to class, but the Aug. 8 celebration at Ellis Elementary School in the Sunnyvale School District (SSD) did just that. Despite being more than a week away from the official first day of school, more than a hundred students … Read more
A former Santa Clara City Council member will have to pay hefty government fines for misusing campaign money if he doesn’t respond to the agency that found him at fault soon. Dominic Caserta served on the Santa Clara City Council until 2018. Amid a firestorm of sexual harassment allegations, in the midst of his bid … Read more
As teachers in the Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD) gear up for the start of the school year on Aug. 13, they’re also trying to ensure that they have all the extras that make a classroom a positive learning environment. This year, dozens of SCUSD teachers have turned to Donors Choose, a nonprofit fundraising … Read more
Students will be back at their desks soon, but before then, the Santa Clara Unified Board of Trustees returned to the dais. The Board welcomed their new Student Board Member Ren Brown, from Santa Clara High School, and got down to business. Physical Education Program Board President Vickie Fairchild requested a report about the … Read more