This year, America had the most school shootings since first recorded in 1970, according to the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s school shooting database. As the state with the highest number of school shootings since 1970, California has faced...
With 10.1% of PAUSD students qualifying for special education services, district and site level administrators say they are constantly focusing on improving the program to give these students the extra help mandated by law. However, some teachers and parents say...
Two cases headed to the U.S. Supreme Court this month hold the power to alter the way colleges use race as a factor in their admissions processes. Many experts believe the conservative majority of the court will result in a...
Last week, administration placed notices in various Paly restrooms announcing the school would start providing free menstrual products in restrooms in compliance with California’s Menstrual Equity for All Act. The notices, taped above baskets designed to hold the menstrual products,...
Flower bouquets, candles and objects that represented senior Lauren Brierly covered the folding tables on Los Altos High School’s quad on April 4. A poster with hand-written messages dedicated to Brierly stood adjacent. Brierly died on the morning of April...
Nelson Gifford resigned as head football coach on Tuesday. This resignation follows Gifford being let go from his position as athletic director last Thursday. Gifford, a 1999 Paly graduate, was the head football coach for four years and athletic director...
With trembling fingers, Gunn senior Edlyn Hsueh clicks “post,” adding to her feed of personal snapshots and portraits, some with her friends and others showcasing revealing costumes. Almost immediately, her phone lights up with an incoming flood of comments and...
Few Paly students can say they have been in all three math lanes. But senior Anneke Salvadori can. “Freshman year, I took geometry honors, and then I dropped into the ‘A’ lane,” Salvadori said. “Then I took Algebra 2/Trig A,...
While the United States has a separate justice system for juveniles, that hasn’t always been the case. In fact, prior to the 20th century, youths were tried in the same criminal courts as adults. The roots of the present-day juvenile...
Junior Noah Boyarsky (he/him) said students often view his transition to being male as something he decided on a whim. “I think a lot of people who don’t have experience with this just assume that one day I woke up...