Editorials

At this time, we’re housing our children in school buildings where their own parents attended classes 30 or 40 years ago. The average age of schools in the Gilroy Unified School District is 30 years old and five schools are more than 50 years old. The District has taken great care of the schools but they need to be renovated and rebuilt.

We’re still flabbergasted over the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Trustees’s approval five years ago of a Capital Improvement Bond that netted  $2.4 million at an ultimate cost of $28.2 million.