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BAKERSFIELD, Calif., (KGET) — Graduation season is upon us, and 17 News Sunrise celebrates Audrey Melendez’s, valedictorian at Independence High School, accomplishments, and future aspirations. “I know it is definitely going to hit me on Thursday when everyone is giving their speeches and when I will see all my friends graduating,” says Melendez as she […]

San Jose State University (SJSU) has temporarily suspended a prominent justice studies professor, Sang Hea Kil, who served as a liaison between the administration and pro-Palestinian demonstrators, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which broke news of her suspension.

The Mountain View-Los Altos school district board approved Eric Volta to serve as the district’s next superintendent in a unanimous vote this Monday. Volta will replace current MVLA superintendent Dr. Nellie Meyer, who is retiring after five years in the position. Starting in late March, the district paid $23,200...

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The class of 2024 graduated at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga on Thursday to conclude their time together at Harker. The chamber orchestra, graduation chorus, and Upper School Division Head Paul Barsky welcomed the crowd of seniors, family, students and alumni. As the final time the senior class gathered together,...

After defeating Lincoln-SJ 3-1 to win CCS Div. VI, Menlo School Knights pitcher Ryan Schnell celebrates the final out with catcher Chuck Wynn at Excite Ballpark. It was Knights first title since 2017. Senior right-hander Ryan Schnell threw the complete-game victory, and called out the team’s culture as the driving...

From a message posted Thursday: Stanford President Richard Saller today made the following remarks to the Faculty Senate: On Monday evening, as part of a protest march on campus, a group of individuals entered an engineering building where students were present and working in labs. The marchers who entered the building blocked entryways with constructed…

As you can see in my bio below, I am currently serving as president and CEO at Team San Jose. Big job, great title and a true honor to guide an amazing team. But my career in the hospitality industry didn’t start out even close to this level of leadership or responsibility.

NEXTDOOR CONVERSATION. There were several conversation today, May 21st, 2024, on Half Moon Bay’s Nextdoor referring to an overnight party at Poplar Beach. One Poplar area resident reached out to the Gunn High School administration and got an immediate response from the 2024 Gunn Student Leadership. I wrote to...

Junior Samhita Krishnan had discovered one issue that many people hadn’t — the gap between the elderly and the youth. To build a better community Krishnan decided to take action and create a pen-pal project called BuddyBonds. In Gunn’s Advanced Authentic Research class, each student has the opportunity to research a topic chosen in an area they find interesting. Alongside juniors Namya Kasturi and Lia O’Donovan, Krishnan created BuddyBonds, a program to connect seniors from Ivy Living — an assisted living community in Menlo Park — with Gunn students. So far, ten students have sent out a combined total of six letters and received one in return. BuddyBonds aims to mend the disconnect between older and younger generations. Writing letters provided a way to build friendships between unlikely individuals, all from the comfort of home.

Graduation Location: Mountain View High School, Mountain View, WY.

Sarah McElaney’s 29th year as a Spanish teacher in the Mountain View–Los Altos School District is particularly bittersweet, as it will be her last. The teaching profession runs in McElaney’s family — her mother, grandmother, uncle and great-aunt were all teachers — and she was always inclined to teach. She planned out her future in her head at a young age.

Woodside’s new leadership student body has been officially nominated and is ready to get to work next year. Leadership roles are made up of the president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. Student body works to make Woodside a better place, mainly by planning events for the school. Being in leadership introduces some new exciting experiences for high schoolers, as they move into higher grades.

As a group of parents has become increasingly vocal about the Morgan Hill Unified School District’s dire financial outlook, the county superintendent recently contacted the board of education with unease about “the long-term fiscal health of the district.”. MHUSD staff earlier this year proposed a 2025-26 district budget...

Students at Arroyo High School dance their night away in the rain at a Prom organized by the Class of 2025. Everyone dressed to impress and had a blast. The theme was Through The Gardens of Versailles. There was dinner, desserts, specialty drinks, a live DJ, photo ops, and more.

Two graduate students at San Jose State University will celebrate completing their master's degrees together on Wednesday - and they'll be accompanied by their infant daughter."We told ourselves that no matter what, we were going to finish and that's what we did," said David Salinas, who will receive his M.A. in Counselor Education as a member of the class of 2024 at SJSU. "Taking similar classes, having that support was super helpful, when days I would feel exhausted or I had reached my limit, she would have picked me up and vice versa."Salinas and his wife, Fernanda Renteria-Gonzalez, say there...

During spring finals week at Menlo, we students are pushed to our academic limits. We painstakingly review a copious amount of handwritten notes; we go to endless office hours to converse with teachers about complicated topics; we stay up all night to skim through large books and long articles. And then, after M-Term, just when we think it’s all over, when we finally feel like we deserve a long well-earned break, a horrible realization hits: we have summer homework. But summer homework isn’t just exhausting. It’s also completely useless. Why? Summer assignments have little academic merit because many teachers don’t give feedback on the work.