Senior Spotlight 2014
Selecting students for the Gilroy Dispatch’s annual senior spotlight honor is no enviable task. That’s why we make the principals do it (and they resent us for making them narrow it down!). These students have navigated the labyrinth of high school hurdles, and we are inspired by their optimistic outlook, refreshing attitudes and heartfelt honesty. We celebrate them, their families, their mentors and all the graduating seniors in the class of 2014.
Separation of singers and state?
Gilroy public school choirs won’t be singing in church anymore, after several anonymous members of the public complained that holding concerts in a single faith establishment is not an adequate separation of church and state.
Parents boiling over GUSD finances
A mob of 100 parents and teachers flooded the auditorium at Rod Kelley Elementary School Tuesday demanding answers straight from the mouths of those in charge as to why Gilroy Unified School District is so deep in financial peril, and how they plan to emerge from it without jeopardizing the classroom.
