Schools

San Benito High School welcomed 19 new teachers to the staff for the 2019-20 school year. The teachers worked together during a weeklong orientation Aug. 5-9, in which they received professional development on lesson planning, teaching strategies, classroom management and learned about the school’s...

At Anzar High School, beneath the shade of a sparkly orange mortarboard with a drawing of Frida Kahlo, San Juan Bautista resident Adeline Martinez prepared to graduate.

The San Benito County Office of Education honored its Classified and Certificated Employees of the Year in an online ceremony May 26. This year’s awards were particularly well deserved as the awardees overcame unprecedented challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the shift to...

David J. Quiroz, the Hollister man accused in the killing of 25-year-old Heather Carroll in October 2012, pleaded no contest Monday to first-degree murder.

Hollister teachers can now take their students just about anywhere in the world without leaving their classrooms. That’s because of a new “virtual field trip pilot” program, facilitated through the Hollister School District’s technology department. “With a teacher guiding an expedition, students can be placed right...

San Benito County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Cedeno began his new role as the Spring Grove School Resource Officer on Aug. 11. The position consists primarily of security and education, and not disciplinary action, according to the sheriff’s office. After the May 24 mass shooting in...

The Hollister School District is now part of the growing list of districts in the region that are moving forward with a distance learning model at the start of the new school year. The Board of Trustees held a special meeting July 21 where they...

Krystal Lomanto, County Superintendent of Schools hosted the county’s first Literacy Summit on Jan. 25 at the Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Hollister.  SBCOE Director of Curriculum & Instruction and Equity & Access, Mai Cruz, coordinated the event, which featured nationally renowned speaker and educator,...

The fans showed up in droves to the Aromas School gymnasium Nov. 6, hoping to grab an autograph and a photo with the VIPs who were invited to an annual ceremony. These weren’t some movie stars who have posed as superheroes on the big screen....

It’s the Friday before Thanksgiving break, and Katherine Alosi’s third grade class is working diligently on their latest assignment. In any other classroom, this may be a rarity—especially an hour from dismissal—but this Gabilan Hills Elementary School class has proven to be an exception...