Palo Alto
Playground fight become subject of legal claim
BY KYLE MARTIN Daily Post Staff Writer How litigious is Palo Alto? A fight on a kindergarten playground that resulted in stitches for one child has blossomed into a full-fledged […]
Todd Collins
Palo Alto
Ladomirak leads in fundraising for school board race
By the Daily Post staff Newcomer Jesse Ladomirak has raised $28,034, which is $10,000 more than the other Palo Alto School Board candidates whose finance forms were posted to the […]
Opinion
Editorial: Post’s recommendations for school board
EDITORIAL We were thinking a few months ago that the pandemic would reduce the number of qualified people who wanted to run for local offices this fall. We were worried […]
Election 2020
Profiles of the six candidates running for school board
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer The Daily Post interviewed the six candidates running for three seats on the Palo Alto school board. Katie Causey Eight years after graduating […]
Palo Alto
Two more candidates pull papers to run for school board
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Two first-time candidates have pulled papers with the county to run for the Palo Alto school board, which has three open seats this […]
Palo Alto
School parcel tax will need help if it is to pass, pollster says
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto School Board tonight (July 7) voted unanimously to ask voters in November to extend the current $836-per-parcel tax for another […]
Palo Alto
Schools in Santa Clara County, including Palo Alto, will stay closed for the rest of the academic year
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Schools in Santa Clara County will be closed for the rest of the academic year because of the COVID-19 outbreak. In Palo Alto, […]
Palo Alto
Principals put in the hot seat over test scores of Hispanic and low-income students
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Principals of two Palo Alto elementary schools told the school board last night that they have improved test results for low-income and Hispanic […]
Palo Alto
School board drops plan to eliminate two hearings on controversial topics
This story was printed on Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the Daily Post. BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board members on Tuesday night gave up on […]
Palo Alto
School board praises new pay plan for top administrators
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board last night praised a proposal by Superintendent Don Austin to reform the way top administrators are paid that […]
Palo Alto
School principals get ‘me too’ raises after they threaten to unionize
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board voted Tuesday (May 14) to give principals and managers the same raises that teachers negotiate — which was […]
Palo Alto
Dauber lashes out at Simitian, says supervisor killed deal between district and Stanford
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board member Ken Dauber slammed Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian Tuesday (May 15) for “killing” Stanford’s […]
In the news
School board members stay in 4-star SF hotel and charge it to taxpayers
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Top officials at the Palo Alto, Mountain View Whisman and Los Altos school districts stayed in a San Francisco hotel on the taxpayers’ […]
Palo Alto
More information about the $190,000 the school district paid to settle claim over sex assault
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district has settled with a former Palo Alto High School student for allegedly mishandling her complaint that a classmate […]
Palo Alto
Stanford expansion’s impact on school district disputed
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board Vice President Todd Collins on Thursday (Dec. 13) chided Stanford officials for what he called a “very misleading” public […]
Palo Alto
School district public record requests go unanswered; official in charge may get a promotion
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district has been ignoring state law when it comes to fulfilling California Public Records Act requests for months. But […]
Palo Alto
School board member Todd Collins targets candidate Kathy Jordan over her dealings with student paper
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board member Todd Collins, who is in the middle of his first term and isn’t on the ballot Tuesday, has […]
Palo Alto
Contractors, architects and Laurene Powell Jobs fund school bond measure campaign
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The campaign for Measure Z, a $460 million bond measure that would benefit Palo Alto’s public elementary schools, has received $68,883 in campaign […]
Santa Clara County
County agrees to negotiate a development agreement with Stanford behind closed doors
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Despite a number of residents’ concerns about transparency, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors decided yesterday (Oct. 16) to negotiate behind closed […]
Palo Alto
Stanford, school district at odds over funding after campus expansion
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer New faculty and graduate student rental housing planned at Stanford could bring hundreds of new students to the Palo Alto school district without […]
Palo Alto
New superintendent would get $300,000 a year, subsidized housing under proposed contract
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Don Austin will be paid a $300,000 salary and receive subsidized rent in a district-owned townhouse under […]
Opinion
School board ignored diversity policy while renaming schools
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor It’s bad that the school board removed the names Terman and Jordan from two middle schools in Palo Alto. It’s even worse that […]
Palo Alto
Board renames 2 schools: Terman to become Fletcher, Jordan’s new name is Greene
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After more than two hours of debate and impassioned comments from more than 65 members of the public late last night (March 27), […]
Palo Alto
School board wants new school site included in Stanford growth plan
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board decided Tuesday (Jan. 30) to urge Santa Clara County to require Stanford to set aside land for a […]
Palo Alto
School board establishes donation policy that avoids Brown Act violations
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school board has fashioned a controversial new workaround to keep the identities of anonymous donors secret to the public while […]
Palo Alto
School board picks interim superintendent
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer An assistant superintendent who joined Palo Alto Unified School District in July was tapped to take over for Superintendent Max McGee last night […]
Palo Alto
McGee will get $153,459 upon resignation
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Following his sudden resignation, Palo Alto school Superintendent Max McGee will receive six months of his $306,918 annual salary, or $153,459, and health […]
Palo Alto
Outside attorneys: Administrators didn’t follow law or board policy when investigating sex assault at Paly
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Administrators failed to promptly or thoroughly investigate an on-campus sexual assault at Palo Alto High School last year, according to a scathing report […]
Palo Alto
2 of 5 school board members say it’s time for McGee to go
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After two confidential meetings about the Palo Alto Unified School District superintendent’s performance, two school board members called for Max McGee’s removal from […]
Palo Alto
Under fire from critics, school board reduces public comment time
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Amid public outrage over mishandling of money and sexual misconduct complaints in the Palo Alto Unified School District, the school board last night […]
Palo Alto
Teachers’ union leader says district can afford unplanned raise
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A missed deadline has led to an unplanned 3% raise for teachers and other school workers in the Palo Alto school district, totaling […]