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The Student News Site of Mountain View High School

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The Student News Site of Mountain View High School

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The Student News Site of Mountain View High School

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Unverified school shooting threat prompts increased campus security

Unverified school shooting threat prompts increased campus security

Mateo Kaiser Jun 5, 2019

Late Sunday night, principal David Grissom was alerted by an MVHS student that a school shooting threat was circulating on social media. Although unverified, the threat is being investigated and police...

Measure E Construction Update: What to expect at the start of next year

Measure E Construction Update: What to expect at the start of next year

Sidney Rochnik Jun 1, 2019

Construction on campus began in February of this year, kickstarting the implementation of Measure E, a $295,000,000 bond measure passed by the state to improve quality of education by creating more classrooms...

English department hires new teachers, ending a competitive search

English department hires new teachers, ending a competitive search

Carly Heltzel May 23, 2019

After narrowing down the pool of English teacher candidates from almost 100 online applicants, the hiring committee announced in early March that Julie Song and Jose Rosario will be joining the English...

Introducing next year’s ASB Cabinet

Introducing next year’s ASB Cabinet

Emma Cahill May 3, 2019

Associated Student Body election results for the 2019-20 school year were released on March 8. The Oracle interviewed the six newly-elected ASB Cabinet members to understand each elect’s intentions,...

District unanimously approves new superintendent

District unanimously approves new superintendent

Nisha Malley Apr 8, 2019

After an extensive nationwide search, the MVLA Board of Trustees has announced that Dr. Nellie Meyer has been selected as the sole finalist for the position of superintendent.  The board voted unanimously...

A La Carte provides free meals to community

A La Carte provides free meals to community

Navi Chawla Apr 8, 2019

MVHS parent Edith Arana, who suffers from severe asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease, making it difficult to breath, had just left work to pick her daughter up from school on a Thursday afternoon....

Locker room thefts initiate new procedures

Locker room thefts initiate new procedures

Isabella Scotti Apr 1, 2019

In response to frequent locker room thefts, the school has recently taken precautionary procedures. The locker rooms will now be closed during all periods except before school, brunch, lunch, and after...

2019 ASB Election Results

2019 ASB Election Results

Oracle Staff Mar 8, 2019

Students interested in filling a vacant position can contact [email protected]

Jose Antonio Vargas: Pulitzer-winning alumnus speaks about memoir

Jose Antonio Vargas: Pulitzer-winning alumnus speaks about memoir

Mateo Kaiser Mar 5, 2019

Last night Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas came to the LAHS theatre to speak about his new autobiography, "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen." Vargas, former co-editor...

Special Education students and English Language Learners find success in the arts

Special Education students and English Language Learners find success in the arts

Natalie Arbatman Mar 1, 2019

Despite facing challenges with conventional curricula, Special Education students and English Language Learner students have thrived in mainstream art classes. This success has prompted a conversation...

District moves forward with first major school board policy update since 1995

District moves forward with first major school board policy update since 1995

Isabella Scotti Feb 28, 2019

The district is currently in the middle of a large effort to update the entirety of its school board policies, the majority of which have not been updated in 24 years. Every district in California abides...

Seniors selected to participate in national test

Seniors selected to participate in national test

Sidney Rochnik Feb 12, 2019

On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 66 randomly selected seniors took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test. The National Center for Education Statistics distributes the NAEP test to high schools in the...

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