Gilroy schools spend millions to help Special Ed students
GILROY—Gilroy schools spend $9,425 per year to educate a student, but in one case the figure is $134,160, more than 14 times the average.
Teacher’s $20K win will help students in need
GILROY—Two months after South Valley Middle School teacher Carmen Kotto was named CSN Bay Area 2015 All-Star Teacher, she and school officials know just how the $20,000 will be spent.
St. Mary kids, teachers trek 765 miles
GILROY—About 300 students, faculty and staff members took part in the St. Mary School’s Seventh Annual Walk-a-Thon and raised $20,454.
Gilroy schools get voice of their own
GILROY—Gilroy’s nearly 12,000-student public school system has its first official, full-time spokesperson.
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.
