Palo Alto Online : School board to ponder interim use for day care site
Possible "interim uses" of the old Peninsula Day Care site on San Antonio Road will be discussed tonight by the Palo Alto Board of Education. (View the agenda) The school district is under contract to...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Fairmeadow groundbreaking expected in January
Construction is expected to begin in January on a new, two-story classroom building at Fairmeadow Elementary School. The Board of Education Tuesday authorized solicitation of bids for the $6.3 million...
View ArticleSchool District Buys 525 San Antonio - Palo Alto, CA Patch
It’s official: the Palo Alto Unified School District has closed escrow on the property at 525 San Antonio Road, formerly the Peninsula Day Care Center. “We now have keys in hand and have updated our...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : One in six Palo Alto grads attends Foothill-De Anza
About one in six Gunn or Palo Alto high school graduates goes directly to Foothill or De Anza community college, according to the college chancellor. Linda Thor, chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza...
View Article525 San Antonio Road Advisory Committee on 525 San Antonio Road is seeking...
The Palo Alto Unified School District Advisory Committee on 525 San Antonio Road is seeking public input regarding a recommendation that the School District lease 525 San Antonio Road until such time...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Education in Palo Alto: Looking back at 2011
The year began with a triumphant parade for youth, with thousands cheering as Palo Alto High School's state championship girls' volleyball team and boys' football team rolled down University in cable...
View ArticleGunn Seniors Semifinalists in Intel's National Talent Search - Palo Alto, CA...
Twenty-nine Bay Area high school seniors were chosen as semifinalists in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search today, Intel officials said. They include Jin Pan, 17, and Jean Wang, 17, both from Gunn...
View ArticleScience Bowl Comes to SLAC Next Saturday - Palo Alto, CA Patch
There probably aren't many of you who'll remember G.E. College Bowl, a television show from the 1960's. The idea was pretty simple. Two four-member teams representing various colleges and universities...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : School officials: 'No need for Cubberley until 2019'
Breaking a long silence on their plans for Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto school officials have recommended postponing consideration of school facilities on the property until 2019. The...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Gunn program backs student 'social entrepreneurs'
Gunn High School sophomore Arjun Parikh just got his start-up funded -- an initiative that combines his love of soccer with an impulse to give. Parikh is one of eight student grant recipients of...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Board approves $2.1 million in school cuts
Mid-year school budget cuts were approved by the Board of Education Tuesday, March 13, as officials described an ever-changing financial outlook. About $2.1 million in mid-year cuts to the schools'...
View ArticleParents Donate $4.4 Million to Palo Alto Schools - Palo Alto, CA Patch
Palo Alto students are about to see a big cash infusion into local schools. Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE) will tonight announce a $4.4 million grant to the Palo Alto Unified School District at...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Palo Alto eyes three new schools at Cubberley
Palo Alto would build three new schools at Cubberley Community Center as part of a new concept that top city and school officials unveiled late Thursday, April 5. The proposal, which the City Council...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Everyone 'sad' after surprise removal of school tree
Children and parents at Fairmeadow School are wondering why a beloved tree, which had been fenced for protection during a school construction project, was cut down over spring break. School officials,...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Palo Alto council backs 'principles' on Cubberley
The Palo Alto City Council kicked off a community discussion on the fate of Cubberley Community Center Monday when members backed a set of principles to guide the discussion. The principles will also...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Schools won't send decile rankings to colleges
In Palo Alto's high-flying high schools, it's crowded at the top. So many students earn stellar grade-point averages that the school district years ago quit reporting a student's class rank to...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Juana Briones principal announces departure
Juana Briones Elementary School Principal Matthew Nagle announced Tuesday, May 15, he will leave the school at the end of the school year to work on projects in the Palo Alto school district central...
View ArticlePalo Alto Schools Rank High in Academic Performance - Palo Alto, CA Patch
Palo Alto continues to be a statewide leader in K-12 education, according to data released Wednesday by Ed-Data. All of Palo Alto’s 17 elementary, middle and high schools ranked at or above the 80th...
View ArticleBiggest Back-to-School Purchase: A New Home? - Developments - WSJ
Last year, Nicole Salama and her husband moved from a ranch-style house in San Mateo, Calif. to a larger home in nearby Hillsborough, a forested community south of San Francisco and one of the...
View ArticlePalo Alto Online : Palo Alto schools report bump in test scores
Better test scores among disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students contributed to a bump in the "Academic Performance Index" score of Palo Alto schools, which was publicly released...
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