Schools

Gilroy Unified School District Measure P funds are hard at work this summer.

Students may not be “ready for college” according to some standardized test results, but that was one of many topics discussed at last week’s regular Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education meeting. Suspensions are at an all-time low this year. The board also voted to change the pay scale for substitute teachers and to ask the state to waive sections of the education code so that the district can sell, lease or exchange two surplus properties.

Raquel Butler

Lily Petersen, a 10th grader from Morgan Hill at Mt. Madonna, is this week's student of the week.

Antonio Del Buono Elementary School’s multipurpose room’s history of ceiling stains and moisture could get a fix, and Luigi Aprea Elementary School may see the addition fencing and a relocated entry gate.

In front of a packed theater of beaming parents and friends,

The Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education has no plans to vote on the internal administrative decision barring choir concerts from being held in churches, despite opposition from dozens of parents and students who call the decision “ridiculous,” “terrible” and a “shame.”

So far, only one candidate has filed papers with the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters to run in the November 2012 elections for a seat on the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education.