PAUSD school district navigates new options for reopening schools amid county and state restrictions Valerie Chu, Ben Antonow and Jace Purcell December 8, 2020 News, Showcase Less than a week after the Palo Alto School Board unanimously passed a new secondary school reopening proposal, Santa Clara County, along with the majority of California, reverted to the strictest “purple tier....
Don Austin’s contract extended four years Parker Wang December 8, 2020 News The PAUSD board of education approved a four-year contract extension for Superintendent Don Austin at its Nov. 10 board meeting, despite calls from some community members to hold off on the extension until the ...
PAUSD proposes new reopening plan for secondary schools Jace Purcell and Valerie Chu November 9, 2020 Breaking News, News, Showcase Principal Brent Kline presented a new secondary school reopening proposal that outlines major changes to the initial hybrid learning model to the Paly staff on Wednesday, Nov. 4. A week later, at the Nov. 10 sc...
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...
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...
PAUSD delivers lunches during quarantine Avantika Singh October 5, 2020 News, Showcase In order to provide support to families most affected by Santa Clara County’s shelter-in-place order, Palo Alto Unified School District started delivering free meals to students during lunchtime starting Aug.17...
District releases criteria for reopening school in person Jack Galetti October 5, 2020 News, Showcase Depending on Santa Clara County’s classification under California's new four-tier color-coded system for tracking COVID-19, in-person instruction could start as early as Monday, Oct. 12 for Palo Alto Unified Sc...
Reopening guidelines should be made clearer to students The Editors-in-Chief October 5, 2020 Editorial Uncertainty is everywhere these days. There’s a good chance that the last YouTube advertisement you watched began with “In these uncertain times … ” But for many Paly students, the only thing more frustrating t...
