Education

Last month, students from Saratoga High School’s speech and debate club joined over 7,000 high schoolers from across the nation at the annual National Speech and Debate Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. Saratoga sent its largest contingent in more than 15 years to the week-long...

As a Bay Area high school student, the pressure to get ready to apply for college bothered me since my freshmen year. I picked extracurriculars with admissions officers in my mind, tailored my course load to my prospective major and spent hours ruminating over...

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...

By the time the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District held its first meeting since classes returned, Aug. 24, it’d already dealt with two coronavirus cases—a teacher and a student—one in Saratoga, and one in Los Gatos. While demonstrating the publicly-available “dashboard” for trustees, Brian...

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...

According to a civil action brought in January under a landmark #metoo-era child-sex-abuse reporting law, AB 218, Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District employee Willie Harmatz pressured students not to cooperate with police investigating Los Gatos High School track coach Chioke “Chee” Robinson. In a...

Your children could be some of a growing number of California kids having their writing graded by software instead of a teacher. California school districts are signing more contracts for artificial intelligence tools, from automated grading in San Diego to chatbots in central California, Los...

The Santa Clara County Board of Education’s (SCCBOE) search for the next Santa Clara County Office of Education’s (SCCOE) next superintendent of schools is moving into an active recruitment phase after the Board of Education adopted a timeline and job description for the position...

It was the day after retired Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department Sgt. Tam McCarthy helped lay a long-time cop, John Pernick, to rest. So on Oct. 27, as he gave an address at a much more celebratory gathering—the inaugural Los Gatos Community Police Academy graduation—he...

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...