BURLINGAME—Special Education Student Joseph Reed never imagined he would lose his work-study job opportunity at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year due to President Donald Trump’s funding cuts to K-12 education. “I was bummed,” said Reed. “I was sad and disappointed that [I] couldn’t work no more.” Reed is currently a freshman at Bay […]
On Oct. 17, the fifth-grade teachers at North Star Academy in Redwood City sent an email to parents. “Students should not be wearing Apple watches in class,” the teachers wrote to parents, the second such warning of the school year. “We have had a number of instances where students have been texting or messaging other
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REDWOOD CITY — The Student Threat Assessment team at the San Mateo County Office of Education oversees Level Two Student Threat Assessments across the county. Two detectives from the Redwood City Police Department are assigned to the team, according to Clements. Since 2017-2018 school year, the Level Two team has handled 151 cases with 22 occurring this year alone, Henricks said. The highest was in 2022 with 41 cases.
Six candidates for two open seats on the Sequoia Union High School Board engaged in the forum to answer voters’ questions ahead of the upcoming election on Nov. 5.
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Using a Yondr pouch, students at San Mateo High School carry their phones with them at all times, but they are unable to access it.
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Redwood City School District joins a growing list of Silicon Valley schools starting to address teacher woes through new housing developments.
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San Mateo County is embarking upon a year-long process to reimagine and restructure the Gateway Court and Community School, one of the county’s alternative education programs for students who have been disciplined or released from juvenile justice systems, administrators announced at a Board of Education meeting on Oct. 4.
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The cool blue glow of a desktop monitor is the only light in Donna’s office as she sits at her desk, rubbing her temples. For most Temple University students, finding sources for a research paper is a relatively mundane task. For Danuta “Donna” Meisel, a blind, 72-year-old Polish immigrant with throat cancer, a literature review
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As Principal Alex Quezada began his daily morning walk around Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto, a young student stopped Quezada at the playground to ask if there could be a “break time” later in the day. The student offered a relieved smile when the principal readily agreed, and then he skipped off
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WOODSIDE – On the morning of Oct. 12, the SAT and PSAT exams began as usual at Woodside High School. Students sat hunched over their test booklets, filling in answer bubbles in hushed classrooms. All was quiet across the high school’s sprawling 30-acre campus. Then the police cars arrived. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office
Peninsula Press · In Palo Alto school board race, a battle for the district's values PALO ALTO – The culture wars have arrived in Palo Alto. In a forum earlier this month for the upcoming school board election, candidates clashed over the place of race, gender and sexuality in local school programs and curricula. While
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California is one of only 11 states in the country that doesn’t require universal dyslexia screening in public schools.
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