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Revolution Foods announced a new line of school-focused vending machines with food that meets or exceeds government nutrition standards. Already in Oakland, the machines debut in more schools in 2012.
Palo Alto-based Rocketship Education, recognized for its innovative teaching of low-income students in San Jose, won approval late Wednesday for a dramatic expansion in the next five years.
After five teen suicides shook Palo Alto in 2009, schools and the city implemented intervention and support programs. Awareness has been raised, but a teen survey shows there’s more work to be done.
At a time when budget cuts are affecting public libraries, Redwood City’s director of libraries remains adamant that they must not just survive in this climate, but thrive.
San Jose’s Lynbrook High School celebrates math and science students the way many schools celebrate athletes. Science teacher Amanda Alonzo shares why inquiry-based learning is great for students and test scores.
An assistant professor of education at Stanford is bringing hands-on physics labs into K-12 schools. In his “fablabs,” students learn to design and produce machinery corresponding to their physics lessons.
A community activist and youth counselor for decades, Bob Hoover was recently hired by the East Palo Alto Police Department to help parolees.
San Mateo County voters defeated a bond measure that would have benefited three community colleges.
Peninsula residents turned out to vote on a variety of local races and initiatives, including a failed attempt to pass a community college bond measure.