The lack of affordable housing options in California has caused a statewide crisis in which low-income communities especially struggle to afford homes. The current shortage of housing is rooted in racially motivated urban zoning codes that historically targeted minorities and mandated massive plots of...

Following the 2014-15 suicide cluster — a group of deaths that occur within a certain time period — at Gunn, students wanted visible, communal ways to honor classmates, including holding memorials on campus, planting trees in remembrance and raising the flag at half- mast. Yet most of these...

Palo Alto students from across grade levels and schools took to the streets in recent weeks, joining a wave of nationwide youth-led protests in light of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Students gathered in the senior quad on Friday, Jan. 30, to begin...

While national politics can often feel distant, Palo Alto has felt the implications of new federal policies in tangible ways. From Stanford University’s research cuts to strategies enforcing deportation efforts around Silicon Valley, the Trump administration has triggered and heightened challenges...

A growing pattern of limited communication and perceived withholding of information has raised concerns among PAUSD families. From the quiet reinstatement of a teacher previously accused of misconduct to confusion surrounding the rollout of the district’s new Ethnic Studies curriculum, many community...

The longstanding issue of homelessness in California has recently intensified, causing cities like San Jose to reconcile two contrasting challenges: the humanitarian crisis of tending to a growing unhoused population and the pressure to implement policies that...

The rolling credits fade, and an upbeat pop song begins playing as the scene pans to a crowded high school party. The lights are low and the music’s loud as the main character navigates his way through a sea of red plastic cups. He’s the stereotypical nerd, usually not the type to drink, but tonight...

Sitting in the second row of her 10th grade social studies class, junior Claudia Wolff De Tourreil was accustomed to difficult conversations. As part of the Social Justice pathway, the class often focused on debating current events. Students were guided through approaching controversial subjects, even...

Although it is easier to believe that the world has been fully expunged of its misogyny and has left the past behind, the truth is far from that. Every day, women face injustices normalized by society, and one of them is the pink tax. The pink tax is the practice of making women’s products more expensive...

Last semester, a series of cheating scandals disrupted the normal flow of final exams. Specifically, teachers of Advanced Placement United States History and Introduction to Analysis and Calculus discovered forms of academic dishonesty, forcing them to implement safeguards to preserve test integrity. On...