Schools

Gilroy Unified School District stayed above the state’s performance target for the Academic Performance Index, while Morgan Hill Unified School District climbed five points but fell short of the state’s benchmark, according to the 2012-13 Accountability Progress Report released today by the California Department of Education.

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There has been plenty of hype surrounding the implementation of the new California Common Core State Standards, or a set of academic guidelines that more or less shape all curriculums and how students are educated and tested.

Approximately 11,500 students and 590 certificated staff members flooded campuses all over the Garlic Capital as the Gilroy Unified School District kicked off the 2013-14 school year Thursday.

The Gilroy High School Garcia-Elder Sports Complex caters to hundreds of athletes and their families between the city’s two high schools, Gavilan College and various other community organizations, but with the 2013-14 academic year kicking off Thursday, the Gilroy Unified School District is scrambling to make sure sports fans have a place to sit.

For all those creative, artistic minds out there, the Gavilan College Faculty Association is seeking your assistance in creating a logo that will embody the spirit of the institution’s Spring fundraising event, entitled “Sowing Seeds, Nurturing Dreams.”

Computer Graphics and Design instructor Colette Marie McLaughlin has a little something extra to offer her students at Gavilan College this fall after finishing up her summer fellowship at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale.

St. Mary School is expanding its kindergarten program for the 2013-14 school year - and shifting its faculty around to accommodate its new transitional kindergarten class.

Supportive sentiments and concerned opposition categorize two sides emerging from Monday’s passage of California’s new education code, which allows transgender students to use school restrooms and locker rooms as well as play on athletic teams that match their “gender identity” instead of the sex listed on their birth certificate.

Gilroy High School was one of 242 schools where social media postings occurred during the administration of California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) assessments this year, according to the California Department of Education.