Schools

Gov. Gavin Newsom late on Tuesday, March 5 signed into law Senate Bill 126, which ensures that all corporate charter schools are held to the same transparency and accountability standards as neighborhood public schools. During the debate on the Senate bill and several still-pending Assembly...

Each month, the principals of Gilroy and Christopher high schools choose a total of four students (two from GHS and two from CHS) to spotlight. CHS junior Shannon McAvoy, 16, is this week's Student of the Week.

The Gilroy Teachers Association and the Gilroy Unified School District hammered out a new contract that includes more furlough days for the 2012-13 school year.

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Las Animas Elementary School pulled an about face from being the

Jennie Kim Christopher High School Class of 2018 Valedictorian Speech Good afternoon to Christopher High School’s lovely staff, families, friends and, of course, my fellow class of 2018. First, please let me thank our guests who are joining us today, our families and friends who have supported...

Amid praises of “good job” and star-shaped stickers, a student attending school in Gilroy may also receive a different kind of compliment: “excelente,” “muy bueno” or “terrifico.”

Gilroy's public school choirs will be allowed to perform in churches this year after all, but come fall 2014, an unpopular decision – backed by more than 1,000 petition votes – to keep student singers out of religious establishments will go back into effect.