SCHOOLS & KIDS
Editorial: So far, all take, no give on Cubberley site
We had high hopes in November, 2011 when the Palo Alto City Council adopted an ambitious work plan aimed at determining a thoughtful path forward for the use and related finan... |
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on Mar 19, 2013 at 9:18 am by Alex Panelli, a resident of the Monroe Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Lessons from a tragedy
Looking back on his daughter's short life, George Ting sees many turning points where things might have been different. Today, he wants the world to understand that things can... |
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on Mar 18, 2013 at 8:43 am by Most tragic, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Law firms protest plan to close mobile park
A controversial proposal to turn Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park into a dense housing development is facing opposition from two area law firms, which argued in a recent lett... |
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on Mar 17, 2013 at 7:54 pm by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
A champion for charter schools
Six years after rocking the Palo Alto education scene with a threat to petition for a charter school here, Grace Mah finds herself in the vanguard of a major charter-school dr... |
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on Mar 17, 2013 at 12:34 pm by palo alto mom, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Palo Alto teen places tenth in national science contest
A Palo Alto teenager has placed tenth in a national math and science competition, taking home $20,000 in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search.
Read the full story here http:/... |
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on Mar 16, 2013 at 9:09 pm by Raman, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
School board boosts staffing with new funds
With a rosier budget outlook than they've had in years, members of the Palo Alto Board of Education Tuesday night unanimously voted to add $2.6 million in expenditures to its ... |
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on Mar 16, 2013 at 9:52 am by village fool, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Fortune cookie sets tone for Cubberley recommendation
A fortune cookie set the tone for a meeting of Palo Alto's elected officials on the future of Cubberley Community Center Thursday night.
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on Mar 15, 2013 at 6:40 pm by pa parent, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Feature story: Palo Alto mom with a mission
Palo Alto resident Stephanie Martinson, a speech therapist and the mother of daughters at Palo Alto High and Ohlone Elementary schools, is on a mission to bring automated exte... |
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on Mar 15, 2013 at 2:49 pm by parent, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Home-schooled Palo Altan among Intel finalists
A math project has earned a home-schooled Palo Alto teen a spot among 40 finalists in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, where the top prize is $100,000.
Read the full sto... |
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on Mar 15, 2013 at 8:50 am by Mark, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
School board lauds new Paly gym plan
Palo Alto school board members expressed enthusiasm Tuesday night for "conceptual designs" for new indoor athletic facilities at Palo Alto High School to be financed largely b... |
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on Mar 14, 2013 at 5:40 pm by boscoli, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Cubberley options to be presented tonight
The community is invited to discuss the future of Cubberley Community Center tonight, Thursday, March 14, at a joint meeting of the Palo Alto City Council and the Palo Alto Bo... |
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on Mar 14, 2013 at 4:20 pm by What next?, a resident of the Leland Manor/Garland Drive neighborhood |
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California Bill Seeks Campus Credit for Online Study
Read this and scream Palo Alto
Web Link
This is a disaster. The ... |
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on Mar 14, 2013 at 4:04 pm by This is it, a member of the Nixon School community |
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'Share Cubberley,' advisory committee says
A new high school -- as well as a comprehensive community center -- at Cubberley are possible if the Palo Alto school district and city governments work toward a common vision... |
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on Mar 13, 2013 at 9:52 pm by Pro-democracy, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Edmund Burke and others who care about PAUSD -
Most frequent commenters regarding PAUSD stopped posting once thread became available only to those logged in.
Short time ago, after the OCR report was published, a parent c... |
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on Mar 13, 2013 at 8:57 pm by village fool, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Brands: not just for businesses anymore
The rise of social media in professional and social situations has made deciding how to present one's self more important -- even for teenagers, according to branding consulta... |
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on Mar 11, 2013 at 10:02 pm by Karen Kang, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Paly - Another Honors class not Honorably ranked by UC?
Is it correct that it turns out that a Chemistry H. class just followed Physics H. class, which followed an English H. class - UC will not weigh as honors?
English H. - http:... |
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on Mar 11, 2013 at 8:21 pm by Observer of observer, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Guest Opinion: Addressing bullying in our schools
Addressing bullying in our schools
by Barbara Mitchell and Dana Tom
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on Mar 10, 2013 at 7:15 pm by village fool, a resident of another community |
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CA ban on school fees
Web Link
Note the third to last paragraph regarding PAUSD schools... |
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on Mar 10, 2013 at 10:54 am by classified, a resident of East Palo Alto |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Editorial: The path forward for Palo Alto school board
Faced with its biggest governance crisis since former school superintendent Mary Frances Callan was fired in 2006, Palo Alto's five elected school board members are on the edg... |
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on Mar 10, 2013 at 12:13 am by village fool, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Board members want more info on bullying case
Palo Alto school board members this week said they want more information on what went wrong in a 2010-11 middle-school bullying case that led to federal civil-rights findings ... |
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on Mar 9, 2013 at 11:03 pm by ahavil, a resident of the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
District submits responses in bullying case
Palo Alto school district administrators last Friday submitted the first batch of required materials to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights relating to an in... |
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on Mar 9, 2013 at 5:35 pm by more to say, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Parents concerned about group projects
Group projects in school emerged as a hot-button issue Tuesday, Feb. 26, as the Palo Alto Board of Education discussed the district's eight-month-old policy on homework.
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on Mar 8, 2013 at 5:36 am by flatlander, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Editorial: As district lawyers step in, disappointing spin begins
As Palo Alto school officials brace for an inevitable lawsuit stemming from its failure to respond properly to the bullying of a special-education middle school student, the d... |
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on Mar 7, 2013 at 9:48 pm by parent, a member of the Palo Alto High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Palo Alto teachers seek pay raise
As Palo Alto schools cheer the best financial picture they've seen in years, teachers are asking for a pay raise.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
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on Mar 7, 2013 at 7:26 pm by Teacher, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Gunn Advisory Committee Report Now Available
After a school board meeting a year ago, Gunn High School was directed by the school board to improve Gunn's guidance counseling program (Here's a link to the article by Chris... |
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on Mar 6, 2013 at 3:11 pm by Gunn Mom2, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood |
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