Education

Crews responded to the William C. Overfelt High School gym shortly before 11 p.m. and found about two dozen people complaining of irritation to their eyes and throats, a San Jose Fire Department spokesperson said Saturday.

A South Bay school district is poised to shutter two elementary schools at year’s end. Dwindling enrollment and a deep budget deficit are cited as reasons.

The driver of the gray sedan has not yet been found. 

At his lab in Point Richmond, Bob Knight and his team on Monday showed KTVU the new helmet design they've created to protect against serious brain injuries suffered by athletes and just about everybody who rides a bicylce or uses a scooter.

A female pedestrian was struck and killed in Berkeley Monday morning by a car that was fleeing UC Berkeley police.

The joint program  between SRJC and SSU will provide a four-year degree transition pathway for SRJC viticulture and oenology students and expand SSU's wine business program in SSU's School of Business and Economics by adding a wine production track.

UC regents will consider two plans to raise fees at their meeting next Wednesday in what could be the second fee increase in nine years, the Los Angeles Times reported.

An offensive sign, hung at a San Rafael elementary school, is getting a vigorous response from the district superintendent. 

Players Ben Garland, Damontre Moore, Dontae Johnson and Daniel Brunskill tutored students at San Antonio Elementary School in San Jose Tuesday and talked about the importance of reading.

Under the program, City College now offers six classes serving working adults, seniors, immigrants and high school students at two locations.

The robotics team at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco said thieves broke into their newly built shed for the second time over the weekend, stealing thousands of dollars in laptops and power tools. 

Police say that between 1996-1998, Wood engaged in two inappropriate and unlawful relationships between two minors. The victims were students at Acalanes High School in Lafayette where Wood was a teacher at the time.

Officers responded at 11:55 a.m. to a report of three people who stole property from a Walgreens store at 1833 N. Milpitas Blvd., police said.