Schools

At Anzar High School, it’s all about individualism. When the graduates walked this week, they did so with caps touting a golf ball, flowers, fringe, a medical stethoscope and even a Mexican flag.

For San Benito High School valedictorian Clara Jimenez, her academic experience at the Hollister campus could be summed up in two words: hard work.

The county’s two main high schools have higher graduation rates and lower dropout rates than the state.

A school bus campaign may soon be driving supplies into the hands of needy and homeless students.

When classes end for the summer, those receiving subsidized school breakfasts and lunches may start to feel the pangs of hunger.

As the two San Benito High School students looked out at their senior class clad in red and white gowns in a single-file line on the baseball field, the enormity of the future started to take shape.

As Hollister resident Aaron Tobia stood next to the stars and stripes of the American flag minutes before he marched it into the hall for his high school graduation, his thoughts were on the future.

Despite no related agenda items listed on two issues—a possible closure of Nash Road near the high school and homeless residents living along the San Benito River bed—county supervisors Tuesday held extended talks on the topics.

Students at the Accelerated Achievement Academy in Hollister turned reading an article about refugees into a multi-week fundraising effort to help people living in Chad and South Sudan.

Gov. Jerry Brown’s May revision of the state budget means additional money for classified staff and teachers in the Hollister School District in the form of a one-time lump sum equivalent to 4.5 percent of their earnings.