Schools

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.

A higher percentage of students in the Morgan Hill and Gilroy Unified School Districts are proficient or advanced in the 2013 California Standards Tests – a major component of the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) assessment – than the state as a whole.

The new mission statement adoped Wednesday night by the Santa Clara County Board of Education states, “The Santa Clara County Office of Education is committed to serving, inspiring and promoting student and public school success,” according to a press release from the SCCOE.

Students in the Gavilan College Computer Graphics and Design program kept their creative juices flowing and extended their winning streak - receiving honors and awards for their projects on display at the California State Fair in Sacramento for a fourth straight year.

Susan Dodd and Gavilan College have had a symbiotic relationship for 37 years, and now – even with the decorated educator’s retirement from the institution at age 63 – her legacy will live on.