Schools

A former Gilroy High School teacher has been sentenced to time served, or 16 months of a possible 11-year prison term, for soliciting nude photos of young boys and other sex crimes.

The first difference Alexandra Aga, 17, noticed on her first visit to Gilroy from Moscow was that people here wear shoes indoors.

Patti Littlejohn, who just celebrated her 50th anniversary teaching, sees no reason to retire. After 39 years at El Roble Elementary School in Gilroy teaching 3rd grade and kindergarten, she retired from public school teaching and came to St. Mary School in 2006 to teach the 4- and 5-year-old kindergarten programs.

Getting dumped as a teacher was the best thing ever for Cheryl Galloway’s education career.

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William Dawson, 32, who taught at the Gilroy Unified School District's advanced student program, was arrested Wednesday and charged with seven felonies for a relationship he had with a 17-year-old female student.

The Gavilan College public information office has announced that all classes are cancelled today, Wednesday Feb. 22, at the main campus in Gilroy, and additional instructional sites in Hollister, Morgan Hill, San Martin, and Coyote Valley due to a tree falling on a power line near the Gilroy campus causing widespread power outages.

A 26-year-old Gilroy High School teacher who pleaded no contest to 19 felonies for soliciting naked pictures from students could be sentenced to 16 months in prison in March and will be labeled a sexual predator for life.

Gavilan College received nearly $1 million from the California Strong Workforce Program for the upcoming academic year to expand Career Technical Education (CTE) programs leading to high demand, high wage jobs in the region, according to a Feb. 6 announcement.