Author: Carolyn Schuk
Schools
Education Desk Mar. 18, 2015
March 25, 2015
Middle College GPA Screw–Up Has Lasting Consequences for Students While Santa Clara Unified continues to pursue its fixation on putting...
City Politics
County Sentences Santa Clara Convention Center to Death by Bureaucracy
March 18, 2015
Last week Santa Clarans learned what’s important to the Oversight Board of the Santa Clara Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency (SA):...
Schools
Education Desk Mar. 11, 2015
March 18, 2015
Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Awards Scholarships to 12 Mission College Students Fewer than half of low–income students...
Community
Soroptimist’s Annual Old Bag Luncheon Best Ever
March 11, 2015
In 2011, Soroptimist International Santa Clara Silicon Valley put on their first–ever Old Bag Luncheon and Auction. It was such...
City Politics
Clean&ndashUp the Clean Up Campaign, Water Quality Board Tells City
March 11, 2015
Santa Claravs enormously popular residential Clean–Up Campaign (CUC) is headed for an overhaul. The Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB)...
City Politics
RDA Shut-Down Oversight Board Decides… to Make No Decision – Again
March 11, 2015
The Feb. 27 Santa Clara Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Successor Agency Oversight Board meeting could be described as the same as...
City Politics
Senior Housing Still Slated for BAREC's Remaining 6 Acres, But City Open to New Designs
March 11, 2015
The six remaining acres of open land at 90 N. Winchester – known familiarly as BAREC – are still the...
City Politics
Soccer Field Design at Montague Park Gets Council Go-Ahead, Neighborhood Critics Claim Park Will Be Destroyed
March 4, 2015
At the Feb. 10 City Council meeting, the Council approved a $765,500 design contract with LPA Inc. for a new...
City Politics
County Bureaucrats May Outsmart Themselves on RDA Property Grab
March 4, 2015
Santa Clara County taxing entities who’ve spent four years coveting real estate owned by Santa Clara’s defunct redevelopment agency (RDA)...
Community
Morgan Autism Center, Speaker Series and Fund Raiser
March 4, 2015
For more than 30 years, the Morgan Center has been educating children and adults with autism, and helping their families...