Author Avi Tachna-Fram

It’s no secret that Palo Alto High School’s Speech and Debate team is a powerhouse, and in recent competitions the Paly juggernaut has continued to dominate while making inroads into a new type of debate compet...

Background The next Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Board of Education will have to deal with a multitude of issues facing the District, including a $4.2 million budget shortfall, an unremitting ac...

The Palo Alto City Council voted to incrementally raise the minimum wage from $11 per hour to $15 per hour by 2019 in accordance with the Cities Association of Santa Clara County’s plan for minimum wage increas...

The results are in — the aggregated data from the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC) for Palo Alto Unified School District’s (PAUSD) elementary schools has been analyzed, evaluated and presented to th...

On Aug. 23, the Board of Education reached an informal consensus that approximately $3.3 million and $4.1 million in budget cuts must be made this school year and the following year, respectively. The Board ...