Schools

A pair of Gilroy schools are two of 20 in Santa Clara County being honored as recipients of the inaugural 2020 Vision awards of the SJ2020 initiative, which is a collaborative community effort to eliminate the achievement gap by the year 2020.

Gavilan College will host its Eighth Annual Film Showcase from 6-8:30pm April 26 at the theater on the Gilroy campus. The free event will feature about 25 student films and finish with an awards presentation for outstanding filmmaking achievements.  The showcase presents films created by...

As expected, the school board unanimously approved a high school

When Gilroy High School's graduating senior Humberto Gaeta, 18, wants something, he makes it happen.

It’s a Cinderella story for Gilroy High School, which is currently undergoing an extreme school makeover that will render the campus “a showcase for high schools in the area,” gushed Superintendent Debbie Flores during a recent school board meeting Thursday night.

GILROY--A Gilroy elementary school teacher and two high school teachers are recipients of the prestigious Teacher of the Year Award for 2015, presented by the Santa Clara County Office of Education at the annual Teacher Recognition Celebration each fall. They are Janet Londgren, transitional kindergarten teacher at Antonio Del Buono Elementary School; Kamala Wood, biology and environmental science teacher; and Elaine Carne, algebra, geometry and integrated math teacher, both at Dr.TJ Owens Gilroy Early College Academy. The event honors Santa Clara County's finest teachers, each selected by their respective school districts. The SCCOE produces the gala with the support of community partners Texas Instruments, Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union and the San Jose Mercury News. A tradition for more than 40 years, the Teacher Recognition Celebration is the oldest and largest celebration of teachers in California, and the most prestigious local award given to classroom teachers, according to the SCCOE.