The Fremont Union High School District will change the way future trustees are elected come November. The district, which enrolls students from Cupertino, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Saratoga and Santa Clara, is switching from at-large elections — where residents can vote for any candidate — to electing area-based board members. This means the school district will split...
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UPDATE: San Jose one step closer to banning homeless RVs near schools
Policymakers in the Bay Area’s largest city on Tuesday agreed to ban homeless people from camping near schools, despite pleas from advocates and concerns from City Hall about how to carry it out. City councilmembers voted unanimously to draft a policy allowing police to tow vehicles parked within 150 feet of K-12 campuses, despite city...
San Jose State faculty back to work as agreement ends statewide walkout
Striking San Jose State University faculty stood in the rain in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library on Monday demanding fair wages, and by late last night a tentative deal was reached. After one day, the California State University strike across 23 campuses was over. The California Faculty Association and CSU management agreed...
San Jose teacher housing prompts demolition of former youth center
One East San Jose school district is ready to move forward on much needed workforce housing and will remove a past icon in the process. Alum Rock Union School District plans to construct 78 homes on three acres of a 23-acre site at a cost of $60 million, after voters agreed to change the language...
San Jose school districts skip electric bus grant
The federal government dished out $88 million in grants to California school districts for electric buses, but San Jose schools lost out. Due to timing, cost and a lack of infrastructure, three local school districts were unable to capitalize on funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program. Alum Rock Union School...
Sunnyvale school improvements hinge on March voters
Sunnyvale residents will vote on a multi-million dollar bond measure to support local school facilities this March. Measure C would help the Sunnyvale School District continue facility improvements at multiple locations, which include updating technology and retrofitting old buildings. The measure needs 55% voter approval to pass. If the measure fails, the district will be...
Two candidates enter early race for Santa Clara County education seat
Two candidates have jumped in early to run for a seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Education. Jorge Pacheco Jr., a teacher and Oak Grove School District board member, and Tomara Hall, a middle school special education teacher and San Jose Unified Equity Coalition member, have announced their run to replace Trustee Joseph...
Student homelessness grows in San Jose school district
The number of homeless high school students and families in one East San Jose school district has increased threefold in just three years. The East Side Union High School District has approximately 900 unhoused students, compared to 300 in 2020. Officials said the number continues to climb and cite inflation, cost of living increases and...
San Jose schools to teach media literacy in misinformation fight
California passed a bill last month to help students tell fact from fiction, especially regarding social media. Now it’s up to school districts to incorporate media literacy into the curriculum. The bill, AB 873, was authored by local Assemblymember Marc Berman and signed into law on Oct. 13. Its purpose is to integrate media literacy...
Santa Clara County education office earns an ‘F’, unions say
When it comes to the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s performance, parents, teachers and residents are giving it a failing grade. County education officials received all Fs on a report card drafted by the Association of County Educators and SEIU Local 521 earlier this month—and it’s meant to sound the alarm. This move stems...