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Palo Alto council debates best way minimum wage to $15 by 2019. It On Tuesday, Scharff was joined in 2019. This timetable is consid- to get to higher minimum wage would also align Palo Alto with in his support for $15 an hour by erably faster than the one used other Santa Clara County cities 2019 by his three colleagues on by the state, which is increasing by Gennady Sheyner that are pursuing a similar agen- the council’s Policy and Services the minimum wage to $15 by da. In June, the Cities Associa- Committee: Chairman Tom Du- 2022 for large businesses and by fter raising the minimum $15 rate is all but inevitable, one tion of Santa Clara County and Bois, Liz Kniss and Marc Berman. 2023 for small businesses. It lags, wage to $11 per hour this question is generating debate on various local officials co-signed The only disagreement was over however, behind the timeline es- A year, Palo Alto officials the council: How soon should a letter calling for a regional the best way to get to that goal. tablished by Mountain View and are now looking to push it even Palo Alto get there? minimum-wage proposal. Among The plan endorsed by the Cities Sunnyvale, which are aiming to higher — an effort that is stirring The plan, which the City the co-signers was Palo Alto Vice Association, and ultimately ap- get to $15 by 2018. alarm among local restaurant Council’s Policy and Services Mayor Greg Scharff, who serves proved by the committee, would During Tuesday’s discus- owners. Committee endorsed this week, on the Cities Association’s Mini- raise minimum wage to $12 in And while the city’s eventual would gradually bring the local mum Wage Subcommittee. 2017, to $13.50 in 2018 and to $15 (continued on page 12) ELECTION 2016 Pool of school-board candidates grows to six Parent-engineer, former candidate join race by Elena Kadvany total of six candidates are nology could help the district officially vying for three improve in many areas, from A open seats on the Palo reducing academic stress to in- Alto Board of Education in this creasing the transparency of the November’s election, with two school board. new candidates joining before Student stress is what got him the Wednesday deadline. more involved in the school dis- Srinivasan Subramanian, an trict several years ago. After his engineer and parent in the dis- older daughter graduated from Zachary Hoffman trict, and Jay Cabrera, who billed Palo Alto High School in 2012 himself as an outsider when he (his son is a senior there this ran in the 2014 school board year), he started noticing the election, filed their papers this increasing pressure associated week, the Santa Clara County with the college-admissions pro- Palo Verde’s new principal, Hillary Miller, introduces herself to Kathleen Rice’s first-grade class Registrar of Voters confirmed. cess as well as students who were on Aug. 16, the first day of school. They’re competing against in- getting good grades but were cumbents Heidi Emberling and not passionate about school. He Melissa Baten Caswell as well as started going to school board newcomers Todd Collins, a Palo meetings and speaking out about EDUCATION Alto parent and private investor, these and other topics. and Jennifer DiBrienza, a parent He arrived at a solution: and former teacher. “Teaching needs to evolve,” he Stephen Schmidt, a lawyer and said. “I think we’ve been teach- Elementary, middle schools welcome parent in the district, also pulled ing the same way that I learned.” papers but told the Weekly that And technology can help, kids back to class he decided not to run. Subramanian said. Instead of Emberling’s and Baten Cas- students hoping to get the teach- Several of Palo Alto’s K-8 campuses get new principal well’s terms are up in November, ers with the best reputations by Elena Kadvany as is trustee Camille Townsend’s. each year, those teachers could Townsend has said she does not video-record their lessons and indergartners waved New principals took over at Miller said that almost every intend to run for re-election. share them with other teach- goodbye to lingering Palo Verde and Juana Briones parent and staff member she’d Subramanian, a principal en- ers and students, he suggested. K parents, first-graders elementary schools and JLS come across had said something gineer at Cisco who came to the Lessons could be posted on the took “tours” of their first-ever and Jordan middle schools. about last year’s turnover. United States 30 years ago from district’s online learning-man- desks and some middle school- “I’m new just like you are,” Palo Paula Kaufman, the mother of India to pursue a master’s degree agement system, Schoology, so ers dove straight into academic Verde’s new principal, Hillary two Palo Verde students and one in computer science, is a strong they are widely and easily avail- learning on the first day of Miller, told a class full of kinder- preschool-aged child who will advocate for using more technol- able, he said. If instruction was school for the Palo Alto Unified gartners who were sitting in a cir- attend the school next year, said ogy in the classroom. The par- “more prepackaged and consis- School District’s 15 elementary cle on the floor and learning how the school community is confi- ent of two is “passionate about tent,” teachers could focus the and middle schools on Tuesday. to attach name tags to their shirts. dent in Miller as an experienced evolving education in our public classroom experience on criti- Kindergarteners through Miller comes to Palo Verde administrator and “known enti- schools by investing in innova- cal-thinking and problem-solv- eighth-graders returned to from JLS, where she was as- ty” in the school district. tive technology to help all stu- ing skills, which he said were school the day after the high sistant principal for the last two “She has a great reputation. ... dents develop 21st century skills lacking in his own children’s schools started the new year. years. She’s bringing a sense of People are looking forward to her and become enthusiastic lifelong education. Four elementary and middle stability to the school, which being here,” Kaufman said. “My learners,” according to his offi- Palo Alto schools should also schools also launched the year saw a total of three interim prin- cial candidate statement. move away from traditional as- with new faces at the helm: cipals in the last school year. (continued on page 13) Subramanian said in an inter- view with the Weekly that tech- (continued on page 10) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 19, 2016 • Page 5 Upfront PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 450 Cambridge Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 QUOTE OF THE WEEK CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT (650) 326-8210 PUBLISHER ACCESS CHANNEL 26 William S. Johnson (223-6505) ******************************************************* EDITORIAL Editor Jocelyn Dong (223-6514) THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. 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