Schools

When the school year ends, Christopher High School Principal Patricia Jolly will be filing out with the students as she retires from her position.

Christopher High School English teacher Tai Bambusa needs a class set of tablets.

They come in the night or early morning, forcing open windows, sneaking into classrooms and escaping with valuable laptops and projectors at Gilroy Unified School District's Brownell Middle School.

Local members of a Patriots group are planning a demonstration rally on Cinco de Mayo in front of the Live Oak High School campus both before and after school to protest the latest court ruling affirming the rights of school officials to ban students from wearing American flag shirts on campus on May 5 in 2010.

Morgan Hill residents: fanciful fare will soon make dreams come true – in style – for an event that’s helped raise funds for local education.

At least a dozen attendees in Gilroy held up signs reading “Re$pect,” “Good faith bargaining” and “We make a difference” during a March 20 school board meeting as they demanded trustees take a look at contract negotiations for paraprofessionals this school year.

Christopher High School's first principal John Perales took a position in the Gilroy Unified School District office nine months ago, but now the man who spent almost 17 years in the district - as a teacher, coach and principal - is moving on to Hollister, where he'll pursue his dream of leading schools as a superintendent.

Lily Petersen, a 10th grader from Morgan Hill at Mt. Madonna, is this week's student of the week.