Schools

Spring Grove student Audyn Diaz wrote carefully on the giant, red card.

Students at Calaveras School, R.O. Hardin School and Marguerite Maze Middle School will be building rubber band-powered cars and marble roller coasters after school starting next month.

Hollister School District teachers are asking for a 4 percent raise, but the board president cited uncertainties with the new state funding formula and a desire to upgrade facilities in countering the proposed salary increase.

San Benito High School District trustees this week approved new graduation requirements for the freshmen class of 2016-17 that include courses mandated for admission to California State University or University of California schools.

At Anzar High School, less than half—or 46 percent—of the students who set foot on the campus at some point during their high school career graduated from the same site last year, according to a report shared with trustees.

To divert skaters away from the Veterans Memorial Building and offer more places to skate, the city is moving ahead on developing “skate spots” in Hollister. They are used in other communities and are smaller versions of a skate park like the one along Memorial Drive.

The Hollister city council narrowly rejected an idea to close a section of Nash Road in front of the high school while students are in class, but the superintendent of the campus didn’t know the topic was up for a vote.

Hollister School District teachers, parents, two trustees, several principals, the superintendent and other speakers gathered at a public meeting Tuesday to discuss growing pains at a campus on Santa Ana Road where two schools share space.

Aromas-San Juan Unified School District officials have selected Aromas resident Angelica Medina as a trustee to fill the fifth seat vacated in late November.