Gilroy schools: improvements among items on Aug. 7 agenda
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.
Perfect Attendance Earns Free Computer
At El Portal charter school not missing class translates to a
GECA students school the SAT
As if their 926 Academic Performing Index Score doesn't already merit bragging rights (California's benchmark is 800), four students in the Dr. TJ Owens Early College Academy - an alternative high school known as GECA located on the campus of Gavilan College at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd - schooled the SAT.
Zero ‘F’ policy makes the grade
A no-F policy will officially go into effect next year, meaning
Pulido named new special education director
Gilroy’s 1,326 special education students, whose needs range from weekly speech therapy to 24/7 residential schools, have a new leader in charge of their care in the wake of the resignation of the woman who had run the beleaguered department since 2013.
School cuts: Library clerks, janitors, district office staff
Along with guidance from a County fiscal advisor, the Gilroy Unified School District passed a list of $2 million in budget cuts for next school year, including the elimination of all library clerks.
School district still searching for oversight committee applicants
The deadline to submit applications for the citizens oversight
Gilroy schools will award honorary HS diplomas
GILROY—Moved by a centenarian grandmother’s story and prompted to act by the deaths of high school seniors weeks before graduation, Gilroy school trustees have adopted a new policy to award honorary high school diplomas.
Don Christopher donates additional $750K to sports complex project
When Don Christopher puts his name on something, it’s important to him that whatever it is, it’s of the highest quality and executed with the most efficiency - case in point being his Christopher Ranch label that has risen to grandiose stature among California growers since opening in the 1950s.



















