Nicole Chiu-Wang has experience as an attorney, is co-founder of a clothing brand and is currently a Product and Business Strategy Lead at Google. This year, Chiu-Wang is hoping to add one more item to this diverse list: Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Board of Education Member.
Chiu-Wang’s...
Proposition 31 is a referendum on California Senate Bill 793 (SB 793), which was passed in Aug. 2020 to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. The law is yet to go into effect due to this referendum.
If citizens vote “yes,” the contested legislation would be upheld, and the ban on flavored...
Proposition 28 requires the state to establish a fund specifically for music and arts education in public schools. The campaign was launched by former Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner last November, and was placed on the ballot through citizen petitions.
This proposition relates to...
This year, Palo Alto High School will host the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) summer high school sessions, featuring an array of changes from last year’s summer school, including an updated mask-optional policy and a return to primarily credit recovery courses.
Since Governor Gavin Newsom...
Since California’s admittance as the 31st state, it has served as a progressive model for public education. Schools became free for all students in 1867, California was one of the first states to pass a compulsory attendance law in 1874 and the Golden State enacted the Class Size Reduction Program...
Math teacher Daniel Hahn tries his best to work around the limitations of his broken SMART Board. “My [SMART] board does not write,” he said. “I can’t use the pens, and the projection image is very blurry. I only use one of the lights in my room, along with larger fonts, so that the board is...
This semester, rising case numbers and the recent Omicron variant have forced the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) to adapt rapidly to new challenges, including a surge in district cases that has contributed to student and staff absences.
While the Omicron variant has not been found to cause...
On a typical weekday, English teacher Kate Zavack begins her morning at 6:00 a.m. at her home in Gilroy, 48 miles away from Gunn. She scrambles to brush her teeth, get dressed, cook lunch and load the car before her son Jude wakes up. By 7:15 a.m., the two are on their way to Jude’s preschool in San...
Along with other schools across the state of California, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) has begun to provide free meals for all students for the 2021-22 school year due to new national and state policies.
Free school lunches were initially offered by the federal government as part of...
On Sept. 20, President Donald Trump announced plans to ban Chinese social media apps TikTok and WeChat due to national security concerns; namely, Trump cited the concern that the Chinese government would steal American user data. These bans would largely affect Gunn students who use both apps as a method...
What’s the status of graduation and prom?
Graduation has been moved to December of 2020.
What’s the status of summer school?
Summer school has been moved online, including the summer living skills classes.
What does it mean to get credit?
To get credit means that...
Mia Knezevic, Forum Editor, Photo Editor and Oracle-SEC Liaison
• May 24, 2020
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) have been closed since March 13 to protect the health and safety of students and staff. While every student has been impacted by adjusting to online learning, the students who have previously relied on the district...
