Students volunteer to serve meals at Boys & Girls Club Will Thomas November 2, 2020 News Music blasts as volunteers bustle in and out of the clubhouse doors, preparing for another night of distributing hot meals to hundreds of people whose cars snake around the block. Weeknights at the Boys and Gir...
Board voices concerns over reopening of elementary schools Valerie Chu November 2, 2020 News At its Sept. 29 board meeting, PAUSD board members cast their votes on whether to approve the school reopening plan. Below are their rationales and their votes voiced at the meeting. Board President Todd Colli...
Students, cast reflect on ‘The Social Dilemma’ Andy Wang November 2, 2020 News Senior James Fetter arrived home from swim practice two years ago in shock. An entire film crew was set up in his house. What Fetter didn’t know at the time is that the crew was there to interview him, his sist...
Elementary schools begin to reopen Braden Leung October 31, 2020 News, Showcase Kindergarten and first grade students returned to district campuses and began in-person learning on Oct. 12, with other grades to follow in the coming weeks. This decision was voted on by the Palo Alto Unifi...
School board race introductions Sloan Wuttke October 31, 2020 News, Showcase Katie Causey Katie Causey is a 2012 Palo Alto High School graduate and nonprofit employee who is running on the platforms of student voices, equity and the physical and mental wellbeing of students which she s...
Caltrain corridor project outlines plan to electrify trains Maya Singer October 25, 2020 News Two or three times per hour, the guard-gates at the Churchill train grade-crossing in front of Paly lower. Traffic gets congested, horns blare and the massive Caltrain thunders past the 800s building and the fo...
Foothills Park may allow non-residents Austin Xiang October 11, 2020 News The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the City of Palo Alto on Sept. 15 over the residents-only policy that Foothills Park has put in place since 1969. In May of 1959, the city of Palo ...
Online education presents challenges Emma Todd October 9, 2020 News On a normal school day, junior Cate Dyer wakes up about 30 minutes before class, has breakfast and then walks over to her desk and logs into Zoom. PAUSD has made the switch from asynchronous to synchronous lear...
Back to School Blunder Jace Purcell, Braden Leung and Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe October 8, 2020 News, Showcase, Spotlight Spring Transition When the United States reported its first case of COVID-19 on Jan. 20, no one could have predicted what was to come. President Donald Trump called it the flu, faces remained unmasked and scho...
Ethnic studies bill awaiting approval Leo Malchin October 6, 2020 News As more Americans begin to question commonly accepted cultures, systems and norms for their bias against marginalized groups, some of the country’s seemingly most trivial practices — no matter their scope — hav...
