Schools

GILROY — Members of the Gilroy Teachers Association addressed a full room during the public comment section of the meeting when roughly 150 school district employees gathered to ask school board trustees to increase pay and benefits as part of negotiations for this year's contract.

Toby Jax Haro, 17, a senior at Mt. Madonna High School, is this week's "Student of the Week."

The Gilroy Teachers Association is asking for a salary increase and better benefits for teachers, speech therapists and physiologists as part of this year’s contract negotiations.

Gilroy and Morgan Hill Unified school districts got their final piece of the $1.25 billion block grant from the state today, Tuesday, as State Superintendent Tom Torlakson announced the second-half release of funds to support their move to the Common Core academic standards.

Zachary Fishler, a 17-year-old senior at CHS, is this week's "Student of the Week."

When Don Christopher puts his name on something, it’s important to him that whatever it is, it’s of the highest quality and executed with the most efficiency - case in point being his Christopher Ranch label that has risen to grandiose stature among California growers since opening in the 1950s.

Students at Luigi Aprea Elementary School are adjusting to bigger issues this fall, apart from the usual dreaded homework assignments, waking up early and getting back into the academic groove.

Jailene Arellano, a 17-year-old senior at Gilroy High School, is this week's "Student of the Week."

Alondra Navarro, a 17-year-old senior at GECA (the Dr. TJ Owens Gilroy Early College Academy) is this week's "Student of the Week."

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.