Schools

The newest item on the lunch menu at San Benito High School is a do-it-yourself salad bar that includes legumes, sweet pea sprouts, hard-boiled eggs and turkey bacon bits along with a heavy dose of personalization.

An advocacy organization that represents 40,000 part-time college instructors across California is asking part-timers to symbolically walk out of the classrooms to draw attention to what they call a significant pay disparity. The move comes in the wake of a proposal the CPFA sent to Gov. Jerry Brown, asking for legislative reform to establish a living wage for part-timers, among other requests.

Ringing in the New Year means a host of resolutions along with new laws such as those on fracking and social media. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the following into law for 2015:

Hollister School District trustees are holding upcoming forums to get input on possible expansion of the dual language academy.

Aromas-San Juan Unified School District trustees are still looking to fill a board position that opened in late November.

San Benito County and City of Hollister officials are taking it up a gear by adding bike paths and safer crosswalks near local schools.

In 2014, Hollister became what actor Mark Ruffalo called “ground zero” in California for the fierce debate over fracking. Ruffalo's tweet sent Oct. 14—in which he made the local fracking reference—underscored the broad reach of the debate in San Benito County over Measure J.

The San Benito High School District last week swore in incumbent trustees Bill Tiffany and Steve DeLay along with challenger Juan Robledo before discussing the health of the budget, the migrant education program and classified employee layoffs.

Southside School shut its doors Tuesday, forming the second closure in three school days due to mudslides on the road leading into the site.

Southside School will be closed Tuesday due to weather-related safety issues in the area, according to an announcement on the school's website.