Investigators from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights have found that a Palo Alto middle school mishandled a bullying case in which a disabled student was chronically victimized by classmates.
Recent statistics on student enrollment and housing growth plans in Palo Alto have encouraged the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) to open a thirteenth elementary school, according to district Chief Technology Officer Ann Dunkin.
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At Tuesday night’s Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) meeting, the district board continued its discussion of an achievement gap at the district’s two high schools, comparing minority student performance with that of white and Asian American students.
Palo Alto parents called for a reduction last week of the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students in the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD). Frustrated guardians voiced their complaints to the PAUSD Board of Education at a meeting on Tues., Jan. 17.
California voters will face a stark choice in November when they decide whether to approve Governor Jerry Brown’s new budget proposal, which stipulates either raising income taxes for the wealthy and temporarily increasing sales tax by half a percent, or eliminating $5.3 billion from state welfare and public school expenditures.
Palo Alto Unified School District teachers called for the Board of Education to halt a four-year trend of growing class sizes at Tuesday’s board meeting.
Early yesterday, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Board of Education voted 3-2 in favor of changing the current district calendar. The change will be implemented next year, with classes slated to start Aug. 16 and end May 30.