The co-founder of Intel and his wife are giving $100 million to the University of California, Davis to establish a nursing school.
The gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is the largest donation ever to the university and is believed to be the largest gift in the nation for nursing education.
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[Read more...]The Burlingame School District board on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to put a $48.3 million bond on the November ballot.
If 55 percent of voters approve the measure, property owners within the district would pay $30 more annually for every $100,000 of assessed value of their property. School board trustees voted 4-0 in favor [...]
[Read more...]A UC-Berkeley professor was shot in the hand in Nigeria on Wednesday when gunmen stormed a newspaper office where he was attending an awards ceremony, according to the university.
Michael Watts, 56, was at the National Point newspaper in Port Harcourt, in southeast Nigeria in the Niger Delta, when at least six gunmen [...]
[Read more...]GOING SOLAR
Expected reduction in electricity costs:
Pioneer High School, 55%
Gunderson High School, 57%
San Jose Academy, 59%
Leland High School, 74%
Joining a growing trend to “go green,” San Jose Unified School District today unveiled a solar-school project expected to save the district at least $20 million in energy costs over 25 years.
The project is designed to generate 5 megawatts of solar power, becoming the largest solar-energy effort among K-12 school districts in the nation, [...]
[Read more...]GOING SOLAR
Expected reduction in electricity costs:
Pioneer High School, 55%
Gunderson High School, 57%
San Jose Academy, 59%
Leland High School, 74%
Leland High School science teacher Michelle O’Shea was brainstorming with then-assistant principal Rob Martin about how the San Jose campus could tread more lightly on the planet - and save electricity and money.
They already had begun an aggressive program to recycle bottles and cans and were monitoring lights, thermostats and doors. [...]
[Read more...]Last Saturday, a group of kids in the Main Street Singers at Los Altos High School got together after their last concert together. For many, graduation - and the start of the rest of their lives - was just a few days away.
Graduating senior Derek Abraham stood up among his friends and [...]
[Read more...]Eric Hartwig, director of student services in Sequoia Union High School District, has been named superintendent of the Las Lomitas Elementary School District.
The board named Hartwig, 58, to lead the 1,100-student K-8 district beginning July 1.
The Las Lomitas district runs two schools serving western Menlo Park, Ladera, Woodside [...]
[Read more...]SACRAMENTO - A judge on Friday refused to grant a new trial in the case of a whistle-blower who sued the state Department of Education, upholding a $7.6 million damage award against the department and the former state superintendent of schools.
In a one-page decision, Sacramento County [...]
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