Tag: education

Gaining access to information through the Internet might get a whole lot faster for students at some schools in San Benito County.

Our children in Hollister are not getting the education they deserve.  The recent results published by the Free Lance highlight a fundamental problem in education in both San Benito County and California: not enough money being spent at the school level. In the most recent data available where we can look at money schools actually received compared to the total amount allocated by the state for K-12 education, one can see the amount taken away from the classrooms in San Benito County by the bureaucracy in Sacramento and other educational offices.

Students and teachers at San Juan School started the year with a new interim principal.

Hollister City Council members Monday are set to consider paying a firm to do a peer review of the roundabout design for San Juan and Graf roads and weigh distributing educational materials on use of the intersections.

San Benito High School trustees accepted an independent audit of their finances at their regular meeting this week in which the firm highlighted more than $1 million that was not on the books.

Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band will be performing at 8 p.m. May 30 at El Teatro Campesino’s theater at 705 Fourth St. in San Juan Bautista.

The San Benito County Office of Education honored “outstanding” teachers last week in the county chambers.

Hollister resident Krystal Lomanto grew up riding horses, driving tractors and helping her father with cattle before she turned to a career in education. Lomanto, 49, spent more than half her life at San Benito High School as a student, teacher, coach and principal before she took her current position as the superintendent for the San Benito County Office of Education.

The San Benito County Office of Education will be hosting a workshop about the Brown Act from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the multipurpose room at San Andreas Continuation High School at 191 Alvarado St. in Hollister.