Santa Clara Unified

Santa Clara County program cleared 346 criminal records; now lacks operating funds

Leave a Comment / Culture & Features, Education, Frontpage Featured, Multimedia, Politics & Gov / By Kelsey Williams

Criminal record clearance assistance is in high demand in Santa Clara County; however, the programs that provide it are struggling to find the money and support to stay afloat.

Santa Clara Unified Slashes Jobs

Leave a Comment / Politics & Gov / By Vanessa Castanaeda

SANTA CLARA—Santa Clara U.S.D. will lay off 60 teachers on March 15 as it struggles to balance its $130 million budget after the Nov. 3 defeat of ballot Measure C, a parcel tax that could have prevented education cuts in the next academic year.

SPECIAL REPORT – Leaded gas: A toxic tale

June 9, 2014 No Comments

"Leaded Gas: A Toxic Tale" is an adaptation of an award-winning print article that tells...

SPECIAL REPORT: Climate change comes home

May 22, 2014 No Comments

Climate change is happening and though local governments in the Bay Area have begun to...

SPECIAL REPORT: On Silicon Valley’s coast, cows unite ranchers and open space groups

April 10, 2014 No Comments

"Cattle Drive": A multimedia report which explores the ways agriculture and open space groups are...

SPECIAL REPORT: Silicon Gap – Widening Inequality in the Valley

February 7, 2014 No Comments

Articles and multimedia from Peninsula Press staff about Joint Venture Silicon Valley's 2014 State of...