Schools

Teachers at Gilroy's 1-year-old charter school are “thrilled,” “proud” and “validated” after learning their second-grade students received the highest projected Academic Performance Index score for an elementary school in the history of the Gilroy Unified School District.

Several Hollister gossip-based Facebook pages have cropped up, concerning parents enough to get in contact with police and attempt to have them removed.

Although San Benito High School Superintendent Stan Rose is looking at the bright side of the start to classes Monday, the teachers union president expressed disappointment in the turnover rate among educators and blamed it on the district’s issuance of 16 pink slips in the spring.

One month after Gavilan basketball player and beloved Gilroy teenager Andrel Gaines would have celebrated his 20th birthday, the man who was involved in the car crash that killed him last November walked free.

The Hollister School District will begin the 2012-13 year with two new principals in the K-8 district, while the enrollment figures may change when school begins as the school rosters will be updated for children who have moved out of the district.

Three seats on the Gavilan College Board of Trustees are up for grabs in the November election, one each in the Gilroy, Morgan Hill and San Benito County areas.

On Fridays this summer, a group of families have been gathering at the San Benito County Free Library and other locations in Hollister or San Juan so that children enrolled at the Hollister Dual Language Academy or the San Juan School dual immersion program have a chance to practice their Spanish skills while school is not in session.