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It promises to be a busy recruiting season for Gilroy Unified School District, which will have to replace at least 40 teachers who recently gave their resignation notices for June 2018. High teacher turnover has become common for Gilroy schools. The district hired 80 new teachers going into the current year and 70 the previous year, according to a Sept. 2017 Q&A with Supt. Debbie Flores. “As graduation approaches, changes are in the air, and with more than 500 teachers in our district, it’s the time we see changes in staffing as well,” said Paul Winslow, the district’s assistant superintendent of human resources, in an emailed response. “This year’s changes are typical.” Attached to the Gilroy school district’s March 8 school board agenda is the “Personnel Order,” which includes 38 Gilroy Teachers Association resignations effective at the end of the 2017-18 school year. Those are:
MUSICAL MAGIC Jim Gill put on a rousing and entertaining show for a roomful of kids and their parents at the Gilroy Public Library on Saturday, March 17.
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before to give concerts as well as training to library staff. “He came out last year for our early learning concerts,” Kelly said. “He did a staff development and training with our children’s librarians. He’s fun and he’s funny and he’s great with kids. And what a great way to learn.” Kelly said it’s a great opportunity for the whole family to get together for an exciting event “It was wonderful, he is just so much fun,” said Kelly. “All the families were so involved.”
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Kids big and small rocked out with Jim Gill, Saturday, March 17 at Gilroy Public Library—with more than 120 people in attendance. Children’s supervising librarian, Sharon Kelly said Gill’s jumping, dancing and singing fits right into the library’s programming for early literacy.
Gill is a children’s author, musician and child development specialist that tours the country promoting five skills that build a foundation for early literacy: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing. “He’s all about family participation. Interactive music for the families to have a lot,” Kelly said. “It’s not just having fun, but children build early literacy skills through playing, dancing and singing so our concert is an opportunity for family play.” Kelly said Gill has come out
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Supreme Court hears local pleas PREGNANCY CENTERS BATTLE TO OVERTURN CA LAW, CITING FIRST AMENDMENT By Barry Holtzclaw Managing Editor
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centers” in Gilroy and Hollister were center stage. In a story that led nearly every major national news report on Tuesday, lawyers for the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates pleaded their case that a 2015 California law violates the First Amendment freespeech rights of their affiliates, which include Informed Choices of Gilroy and the Hollister Pregnancy Center. The highly anticipated case is
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being watched closely by more than 300 of these anti-abortion counseling centers in California, which for more than two years have been required to provide positive information about abortions. The centers, which were created to convince expectant mothers not to have abortions, stress adoption alternatives and offer free pregnancy tests. Christine Vatuone, executive director of Informed Choices, was in Washington, DC Tuesday,
and was not available for comment. Brigette Blair, director of the Hollister Pregnancy Center, declined to comment. Informed Choices has moved back and forth between Morgan Hill and Gilroy for three decades, and most recently relocated to Gilroy, at 66 1st St. The Hollister center is at 483 5th St. There are more than a dozen similar centers in Santa Clara County, ➝ Supreme Court, 8
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