The Palo Alto school district’s proposed new academic calendar, designed to alleviate stress among high school students, has met varying levels of support and resistance from the community.
Superintendent Kevin Skelley would like to see Palo Alto students at all grade levels start classes a week earlier, on Aug. 16. First-semester finals would be shifted to December to prevent high school students from spending their winter break studying for exams.
Iraqi translators in the war earned special immigrant status to resettle their families in the United States. However, for many, it has not been an easy transition.
East Palo Alto, CALIF.—Waiting for her doctor, six-year-old Alejandra Vazquez sat patiently on the check-up table, every fidget crinkling the paper beneath her. Yesterday a dentist at Willow Dental Care in San Jose extracted one of her baby teeth. Alejandra said the dentist pulled the tooth because “it was loose,” but her mom explained, through a translator, that the tooth was decayed and that Alejandra needed several cavities filled.
As Congress prepares to revamp the Child Nutrition Act in July, after lax federal school food safety measures and concerns over child obesity, Santa Clara County schools join local farms to improve standards and students’ eating habits.
Zoran Corp. (NASDAQ: ZRAN), a leading producer of integrated circuits and related products used in digital technology showed clear signs of recovery in its fourth fiscal quarter, ended Jan. 2010, as losses decreased by 86 per cent from the same period last year.
A former commercial laundry site that is being cleaned up by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, has been found to be contaminated with more than three times as much perchloroethylene (PCE), as allowed by California health standards.
Menlo Park, home of Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists and million-dollar abodes, was not eligible for the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program – so the city decided in May to fund one of it’s own.
STANFORD, CA.–Lack of investor interest and economic adversity have kept East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood district in a 20-year redevelopment gridlock, but the city is moving ahead on a proposal that would rezone the area to spur job growth and make Ravenswood a new city hub. “The city needs to be able to insure investors that
Stanford, CALIF. — Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is moving to the Internet and substituting its snail mail business model for digitally streamed movies. “Pretty soon, we’re going to be a streaming business that rents some DVDs,” Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO said during a recent industry gathering.