Education

At the Oct. 9 Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District board meeting, Associate Superintendent Deepa Mukherjee presented an overview of the district’s Advanced Placement (AP) program, showing that overall, students tended to outpace learners from around the country in last Spring’s AP exams. The District...

Braden Taylor, now 38, made an early performing arts splash. In a Daves Avenue Elementary School performance of “Alice in Wonderland,” he was part of the ensemble scenery. Then, he played a reporter when the school put on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the following...

A change.org petition that raises safety and accountability concerns within the Saratoga Union School District has been gathering steam. The petition, which was created anonymously on Christmas Day, centers on the District’s acknowledgment that a volunteer who was not properly vetted participated in after-school activities...

About 150 parents have been toiling away on plans for the carnival set to be unveiled at Los Gatos High School to send seniors off into the wider world in style. The Class of 2022 Grad Night committee has about 75 co-chairs, as the community...

It’s featured the Beatles, John Philip Sousa, Led Zeppelin and Booker T. Washington, and on April 14, around 185 Los Gatos High School students joined the ranks of people who have graced the stage at Carnegie Hall, during the 2023 Harmonic Convergence Concert. The Italian...

Kevin Buchanan, the principal of Los Gatos High School, looked out at the bustling campus as his last year before retirement winds-down. He noticed a group of students playing with a ball on the lawn near East Main Street. “This is a good sign,” he remarked....

After serving half of his four-year term on the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District’s school board, trustee and former Los Gatos High science teacher Alex Shultz announced his resignation from the position, effective Jan. 24, at the board’s first meeting of the year. During...

Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Los Gatos Education Foundation, recently visited Daves Avenue Elementary School, where its mascot, the Cool Cat, had been high-fiving students and handing out flyers. That was part of a drive during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month to bolster the Los...

The Los Gatos (LGHS) and Saratoga High School (SHS) Music Departments earned top marks once again in music competitions this season. In addition to winning multiple competitions, student musicians have been selected to represent their school in regional, state and national competitions and performances, including...

The Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District has agreed to pay a former student athlete $3.485 million for sexual abuse that she said she endured for more than three years, in a settlement announced this week. Beginning in 1999, the plaintiff in the case,...