Torunian became interested in the Sequoia district because he aims to help high schoolers prepare for their future.

“As this next generation starts to become young adults — they go into the workforce, they get married, maybe some of them become our future leaders. How do we prepare them for..."

The combination of soaring infl ation, an ever-increasing tax burden and a forecasted eight-year budgetdefi cit is quickly making Redwood City a cost-prohibitive place to live and possibly one of the highest-costcities in the state, if not the country.

We are a half century removed from the enactment of Title IX, the federal law that barred discrimination against women in education and that forced a leveling of the playing field athletically at schools across the country. It helped usher in a generation of female soccer players, basketball players, volleyball players, lacrosse players and most recently flag football players. This dynamic peaked in...

The San Mateo Union High School District recently held a series of “study sessions” on ethnic studies. In reviewing hundreds of pages of publicly available curriculum, specifically what is taught at Hillsdale High School, it was alarming that only one worksheet references the contributions and accomplishments of ethnic groups — the key stated intent of ethnic studies.

As the 2024 election cycle quickly approaches, I am reminded of words spoken by then President Barack Obama that “elections have consequences.”

In my research, I found numerous articles examining the problem from the lens of making the budget numbers work, as if we were trying to solve a math equation. While others refer to the problem as “manageable.” But there was no discussion as to why the world’s fifth largest economy can’t seem to manage its budget effectively and deliver the services its residents require? Surely, if any of us in our jobs delivered this type of budget crisis, we would be fired.

History is littered with larger-than-life companies that lost their way and ultimately failed in epic fashion: Sears, JCPenney, U.S. Steel, AT&T, Kodak, Xerox, Blockbuster and most recently Anheuser-Busch. Each of these companies unfortunately squandered market share by ignoring shifts in technology and/or changes in consumer behavior. But, most importantly they allowed customer trust to erode.