Student Spotlight: Gilroy High’s Alexander “Ike” Valenti Eichenbaum
This is our first edition of Student Spotlight, which is a quick look into the life of a high-schooler in Gilroy. Spotlights will rotate through high schools. This week it's Gilroy High's turn. Recommend your Student Spotlight to btellers@gilroydispatch.com.
Pacific West Christian Academy accredited for K-8
Pacific West Christian Academy, which has three campuses in Gilroy, has been accredited for its kindergarten through eighth-grade programs. This is the first accreditation that the Western Association of Schools and Colleges accrediting body has awarded to PWCA.
School board snippets: Talented teachers, Preppy K update and advice for mayor candidates
Here are some highlights from the Sept. 21 Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education meeting. Click here to view the full agenda.
CHS, GECA students named National Merit Scholar semifinalists
Three high school seniors in the Gilroy Unified School District were recently named semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
GHS students support grieving classmate
Students at Gilroy High School came together Monday to demonstrate support for their grieving classmate.
Jack Daley update: Ruling could be months out
It is unknown how long it will take to learn the results of a closed-door arbitration hearing that took place Monday morning between Gilroy High School’s former athletic director, Jack Daley, and the Gilroy Unified School District.
Live Oak High tagged with Sobrato “S” and Bulldog pawprints
Superintendent Wes Smith with the Morgan Hill Unified School District is calling a recent vandalism incident at Live Oak High School a "crosstown rivalry prank that went a little bit too far."
Union asks: Justice for Jack?
A controversial issue that sparked community outcry is coming to a crossroads more than a year after Jack Daley – Gilroy High School's popular former athletic director and district staff member of 20 years – was “reassigned” following an April 7, 2011 incident when first-year GHS track coach Alvin Harrison was arrested for a DUI on Daley's watch.
Hooray for cinema! Free film class now offered through Gavilan College in Morgan Hill
Are you becoming disillusioned with a sequel-saturated Hollywood and mediocre blockbuster pickings? (ahem, "John Carter").
GECA student named National Merit Scholar semifinalist
Alexander Spaeth, a senior at the Dr. TJ Owens Early College Academy - a smaller high school located on the Gavilan College campus at 5055 Santa Teresa Blvd. - was named a semifinalist today in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
