Schools

Surges of new students that swelled Gilroy classrooms during a decade of growth and drove construction of the nearly $158 million Christopher High School are a thing of the past—at least for a while; after that it’s anyone’s guess.

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.