Gilroy Prep: Raising the bar, salaries
Compensation is a matter of apple and oranges when you’re looking at the Gilroy Unified School District and its brand-new charter school, which is giving its six teachers up to 10 percent raises in a year when GUSD implemented 4 percent salary cuts for all its certificated staff.
School trustee heads push for eastside community pool
A Gilroy school board trustee is leading the charge for the construction of a new community pool on the east side of the city, which has had no public aquatic facilities since the closing of the old pool at South Valley Middle School nearly...
School Trustees Examine Coyote Valley Options
Morgan Hill School District can choose to create a new district,
Part-time faculty association asks Sacramento for reform
An advocacy organization that represents 40,000 part-time college instructors across California is urging Governor Jerry Brown to make a sea change in how part-timers at schools like Gavilan College—which depends heavily on part-time faculty—are compensated.
Trustee Urges Yes on Measure E
Of the seven Gilroy school board trustees, Patricia Midtgaard has perhaps the finest of lines to walk when it comes to Measure E, the $170 million school bond proposal on the June 7 ballot.
Student of the Week: Joy Kirkwood
Meet Joy Kirkwood, a 17-year-old senior at Christopher High School and our "Student of the Week."















