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RCSD law enforcement, schools heightened concerns amid nationwide surge in school threats

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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 Ctiy 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.

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San Mateo County To ‘Reimagine’ Alternative Education Program  

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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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A degree 72 years in the making: Donna Meisel’s nontraditional path in higher education

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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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A mural on the main office building of Los Robles-Ronald McNair academy, a K-5 Spanish/English dual immersion school in East Palo Alto.

‘Cannot quantify the trauma’: pandemic effects add up in San Mateo County schools

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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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“It’s beyond unsettling, it’s terrifying”: At local high schools, the fear of gun violence looms

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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

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Palo Alto school board candidates battle for district’s values

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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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