Schools

Nine hundred twenty-seven students just earned high school diplomas in Gilroy and 23 of those were handed out in the city’s first Adult Education graduation since 2013. Dropout Jovita Caspary, 37, a single mother at age 14, turned her life around and received a diploma during the program’s May 30 ceremony at the Gilroy High School Theatre.

Gilroy’s Class of 2017 tallied record numbers in diplomas and scholarship dollars, including nearly a quarter of a million dollars from a mystery donor known only as “Uvas Creek.”

This was the speech given by Adult Ed director Rick Charvet to the graduating class last week.

The Gilroy Foundation gave out $621,250 in scholarships this year to Gilroy students

Purists in both camps might well argue that winemaking and soccer aren’t in the same league, that the goals of one cannot possibly be the goals of the other and, for that matter, wonder who’d even suggest such things.

California’s top educator visited Gilroy classrooms for the first time in the history of the Gilroy Unified School District.

Students at Eliot Elementary School erupted into squeals of delight Monday morning as Buttercup a 1,000-pound Holstein cow from San Martin, made her appearance during a special assembly.