SCHOOLS & KIDS
Terminate private school lease,
superintendent recommends
Superintendent Maurice Ghysels recommended that the Menlo Park City School District governing board terminate a private school's lease on a district property two years before ... |
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on Apr 11, 2013 at 5:59 pm by gais supporter, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Private school faces eviction in Menlo Park
Menlo Park City School District staff is recommending that the school board terminate the German-American International School's lease of the district's former O'Connor School... |
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on Apr 9, 2013 at 4:28 pm by SteveC, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Bid4Kids - M-A Foundation Auction
The M-A Foundation online auction is now open. Bidding will close on Monday, April 15th.
Take a look at the catalog at Web Link : all proceeds benefits M-A ... |
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on Apr 8, 2013 at 10:11 pm by Lucia Tedesco, a resident of the Menlo Park: Stanford Weekend Acres neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Will German-American school get reprieve?
As the decision nears for the Menlo Park City School District board to let the German-American International School know whether it's being evicted from a former district scho... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 7:12 pm by Disconcerted, a resident of the Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Getting tough on distracted drivers
If you're not paying attention to what's happening in front of you while moving down the road, chances are that you're engaged in distracted driving. If you make a routine of ... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 12:29 pm by Christina Feng, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Parent input sought on special ed director
Two meetings are set for this week to seek comments from parents about what leadership characteristics they want to see in the Menlo Park City School District's next director ... |
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on Apr 3, 2013 at 5:32 pm by beta, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Private school supporters plead for more time
(This is an expanded version of a previously published story.) More than 600 supporters of a private school that may be booted from its longtime home two years before i... |
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on Apr 3, 2013 at 8:56 am by Parent, a resident of the Menlo Park: The Willows neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
St. Patrick's finance director accused of stealing $202,000 and Mercedes from seminary
Jennifer Margret Morris, the 57-year-old finance director for St. Patrick's Seminary and University in Menlo Park, has been charged in the theft of $202,000 and a 1982 Mercede... |
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on Apr 1, 2013 at 9:31 pm by Karen, a resident of the Menlo Park: Fair Oaks neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Editorial: Superintendent's actions roil school district
For a superintendent who is reputed to be fond of applying the latest business techniques to improve the performance of local school districts, Maurice Ghysels seems to have m... |
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on Mar 27, 2013 at 6:28 pm by Peter Carpenter, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Increased traffic patrol nets at least 200 drivers in Menlo Park and Redwood City
Even with police publicizing stepped-up traffic patrols on Wednesday, at least 200 drivers got tickets in Menlo Park and Redwood City.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
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on Mar 26, 2013 at 7:57 pm by Old MP, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
A page from our history
Menlo Park Grammar School was built in 1893 to serve residents of Fair Oaks (now Atherton) and Menlo Park on El Camino Real near Glenwood Avenue. It lasted until 1912, when wo... |
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on Mar 26, 2013 at 2:27 pm by Garrett, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Board OKs firing of special education director
The school board approved the removal of the Menlo Park City School District's director of special education from her job on March 12, but not until the defiant director publi... |
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on Mar 26, 2013 at 9:03 am by Damage control, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Las Lomitas Fun Run, April 27th
LAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION FUN RUN 2013
You and your entire family are invited to join the Las Lomitas Education Foundation’s second annual Las Lomitas Education Founda... |
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on Mar 22, 2013 at 3:41 pm by Las Lomitas Education Foundation, a member of the Las Lomitas School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
GAIS is at it again
The profit making "non profit" GAIS school has applied for another use permit revision. It seeks to place three so-called "portables" (read: buildings) on site. Two would be p... |
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on Mar 21, 2013 at 1:43 pm by Anonymous, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Traffic enforcement in Menlo Park
Today is not the day to be chatting on a cellphone while driving -- not that any day is -- but on Wednesday (March 20), a larger number of traffic police will be on patrol in ... |
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on Mar 21, 2013 at 8:41 am by Donald, a resident of another community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Portola Valley man pleads no-contest to child porn charges
Portola Valley resident Stephen Wolf, 65, pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges of possession of child pornography, according to the San Mateo County District's Attorney's Of... |
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on Mar 20, 2013 at 5:10 pm by Andrea, a resident of the Woodside: Skywood/Skylonda neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Special education director forced out
The school board approved the removal of the Menlo Park City School District's director of special education from her job last night (March 12), but not until the defiant dire... |
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on Mar 18, 2013 at 10:39 am by JeffS, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Menlo Park: Special ed director faces ouster
A battle is brewing over the pending dismissal of the Menlo Park City School District's director of special education at the end of the school year.
Read the full story her... |
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on Mar 13, 2013 at 9:29 am by lessons learned, a resident of the Menlo Park: Felton Gables neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Further delay in opening Hillview playing field
The games must go on, in spite of the continued delay in opening the Hillview Middle School playing field, which has been booked by the Menlo-Atherton Grizzlies Lacrosse Club ... |
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on Mar 12, 2013 at 8:31 pm by MP parent AND tax payer, a resident of the Menlo Park: Felton Gables neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Woodside High stages 'Legally Blonde'
"Legally Blonde, The Musical" is being staged at Woodside High School's Performing Arts Center through March 16, with a Sunday performance at 2 p.m. March 10.
Read the full ... |
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on Mar 11, 2013 at 2:16 pm by WHS mom, a member of the Woodside High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Menlo Park father takes child's play seriously
Mike Lanza, author of "Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play," will speak Monday, Feb. 25, on ways parents can promote neighborhood play and help kids deve... |
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on Feb 27, 2013 at 10:30 pm by presentation, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Parents demand Menlo Park reinstate gymnastics teacher
City employees are often reminded that they work for the public — usually when the public wants the employee terminated. But in the case of a fired gymnastics teacher, the pub... |
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on Feb 26, 2013 at 12:22 pm by editor, a resident of the Menlo Park: other neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Woodside School gears up for kindergarten registration
Parents whose children are eligible to attend kindergarten or transitional kindergarten next fall at Woodside Elementary School are invited to attend a informational meeting o... |
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on Feb 7, 2013 at 3:24 pm by Sir Topham Hatt, a resident of the Menlo Park: University Heights neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Court denies schools recovery of $20 million in losses from Lehman Brothers bankruptcy
A state appeals court on Thursday approved the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against San Mateo County by 12 county school districts – including the Menlo Park City, Las ... |
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on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:43 am by Jack Hickey, a resident of the Woodside: Emerald Hills neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Letter: Plenty of healthy substitutes for milk
A frequent bugaboo of the "fiscal cliff" debacle was the "milk cliff," the threat of milk prices doubling if Congress failed to extend dairy subsidies. Parents were forgoing o... |
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on Jan 17, 2013 at 7:40 pm by Lactose intolerant, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood |
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