SCHOOLS & KIDS New day care center eyed for East Bayshore Road A new day care center would open on East Bayshore Road in Palo Alto under a proposal the City Council is scheduled to weigh tonight.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS how is palo alto high's math entrance test? I am going to be a freshman at palo alto high next fall. I live in another state right now. I'm taking algebra now and I have to take a test at palo alto to decide what class ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by new student, a resident of another community, on Apr 8, 2012 at 10:17 pm There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 9, 2012 at 4:15 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS should teenagers be allowed to drive SUVs Yesterday, a teenager in the East Bay lost control of his SUV, jumped the curb, sheared off a fire hydrant, and plowed into a family on the sidewalk. A father and daughter wer... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by parent, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Apr 8, 2012 at 8:33 am There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 9, 2012 at 11:18 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Local PTA gathers signatures for tax initiative In book clubs and exercise groups across town, Palo Alto PTA volunteers are gathering signatures for a November income-tax initiative to raise funds for California public educ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 6, 2012 at 9:01 am There have been 27 comments on this topic, the most recent on Nov 4, 2012 at 7:11 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Police: Student lockers breached at Paly An intruder or intruders used bolt cutters to enter a fenced area and open approximately 100 lockers at Palo Alto High School, according to Palo Alto police.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Toasting with buttermilk More than 100 students at Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto celebrated their study of the Middle Ages with a Medieval Feast Wednesday and Thursday, March 28 and 29, in the sch... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Apr 2, 2012 at 6:51 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Apr 12, 2012 at 2:35 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Stanford admits 6.6 percent for Class of 2016 Stanford University sent notification letters Friday, March 30, to high school students around the world on its admission decisions for the undergraduate Class of 2016.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS School board presses 'math task force' members "Flexible groupings" of students — not laning — was among the strategies endorsed by the Palo Alto school district's Task Force on Elementary Mathematics, which re... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 30, 2012 at 7:17 pm There have been 15 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 6, 2012 at 1:35 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Palo Alto teacher named new Hoover principal Palo Alto teacher Katy Bimpson has been nominated to become the new principal of Hoover Elementary School, replacing Susanne Scott, who will retire in June.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Improving high school counseling An unusually impatient and resolute school board made clear this week that it does not believe students at Gunn High School are receiving comparable counseling services to tho... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 30, 2012 at 12:34 pm There have been 18 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 2, 2012 at 11:59 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Gunn to move toward counseling reforms Gunn High School administrators said they will move toward significant reforms in the school's guidance counseling program following a discussion with the Board of Education T... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 28, 2012 at 7:09 am There have been 13 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jun 17, 2012 at 3:22 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Foundation donates $4.4M to Palo Alto schools Parent and community volunteers have raised a record-breaking $4.4 million to donate to local public school campuses, the foundation Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE) anno... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 27, 2012 at 9:59 pm There have been 28 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 31, 2012 at 8:20 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS 43 Palo Alto teachers receive tenure Forty-three teachers representing most of Palo Alto's public school campuses will gather today for a yearly event known as the "tenure celebration."
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Researcher: Math anxiety changes children's brains Brains function differently in children who have math anxiety than those who don't, Stanford University researchers have discovered. Researchers conducted brain scans on secon... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 26, 2012 at 8:56 pm There have been 7 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 29, 2012 at 10:47 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Local teens plan 'Hit the Lights' event Saturday Palo Alto teens are invited to a dance with black lights, lasers, games, food and student DJs Saturday, March 31, at Lucie Stern Community Center.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Survey: Differences in Gunn, Paly guidance systems Two-thirds of high school students in Palo Alto "feel tremendous pressure to succeed academically," according to surveys taken at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools. An outside c... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 26, 2012 at 10:11 am There have been 28 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 11, 2012 at 12:00 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS A focus on data, and minding the gap The new campus of Rocketship Discovery Prep wasn't much more than a vacant lot near U.S. Highway 101 and McKee Road in San Jose a year ago.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Reflections eight years after my brother's death On Nov. 14, 2003, I lost my brother Ben to suicide. I still remember that night vividly.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Portola Valley man arrested in child porn sweep Detectives from a regional Internet-crimes task force have arrested Portola Valley resident Stephen Wolf, 64, on felony charges of possession of child pornography, according t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 23, 2012 at 2:41 pm There have been 5 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 27, 2012 at 5:56 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Palo Alto earns 'D' in service to minority students For the second year in a row the Palo Alto school district has earned low grades from a group that evaluates how well California's largest school districts serve Latino, Afric... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 23, 2012 at 10:07 am There have been 102 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 26, 2012 at 12:08 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Palo Alto man seeks to 'eliminate achievement gap' Can a Silicon Valley business guy retool his startup skills to transform the world of education? Meet John Danner, a Palo Alto resident who is betting his company on it. ==B R... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 23, 2012 at 9:05 am There have been 16 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 24, 2012 at 6:08 pm.
SCHOOLS & KIDS piano teacher recommendation Can the board recommend good piano teachers in/around palo alto? My kids have been playing piano for about 3 -4 year, with the older one (11 years old) being an intermediate l... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by zs, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Mar 21, 2012 at 11:16 pm There have been 6 comments on this topic, the most recent on Apr 2, 2012 at 10:19 am.
SCHOOLS & KIDS Gunn Robotics Team prevails in Baltimore contest Driving a robot capable of shooting basketballs into hoops, Gunn High School's Robotics Team prevailed in a recent national competition.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS Victim of bullying needs help! Please join the team of supporters to put an end to bullying in Palo Alto schools. Together we can make our schools a better place for everyone.
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SCHOOLS & KIDS VIDEO: VolunTEENS, Part 1 Filmmaker Carolina Moraes-Liu presents a monthly series of videos focusing on how teenagers in Palo Alto are finding ways to volunteer throughout the Bay Area. This first segm... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Mar 16, 2012 at 3:49 pm There have been 26 comments on this topic, the most recent on Mar 29, 2012 at 1:31 pm.
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