![Palo Alto High School Choir Director Michael Najar shows The Voice the 1911 Steinway grand piano in the Haymarket. After a nine-year effort, the Performing Arts Center will be home to a state-of-the-art Steinway 9-foot Model D concert grand piano. According to Najar, many are shocked by the $239,000 price tag. “If you don't know what it [a good piano] sounds like, then I can just play on anything, but if you know, there's only going to be one, and we're going to use it too,” Najar said. “We're [the Paly Instrumental Music Program] not hiding this thing [the new piano], and it's not just going to be for special performances. Middle school bands, if they have a competent pianist, will use it.”](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_4623-1200x800.jpg)
At a special meeting Thursday, the Board of Education voted unanimously to appoint Herb Espiritu, the district’s director of certificated human...
For some Palo Alto High School students, the escalating war in Iran isn’t just a distant news story. Following American-Israeli strikes...
Teachers at Palo Alto High School will be gathering on campus tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. to rally for higher pay, calling for an increase in their...
Palo Alto educators are urging for a more transparent school board surrounding leadership and budgets following a contentious school board...
Fletcher physical education teacher Peter Colombo, who was accused of sexually assaulting a student during the 2001-2002 school year, is no longer...
The Palo Alto Unified School District school board reached a mutual agreement to 'separate' with Deputy Superintendent Trent Bahadursingh 'effective...
![Board member attendees hold 'support students,' 'support teachers' and 'support schools' signs Tuesday at the Palo Alto Unified School District board meeting. According to Palo Alto Educators Association president Tom Culbertson, weakening communication between staff and district leadership has led to worsening morale and added strain on educators’ well-being. "We [PAEA] have seen an erosion of collaboration [and] professional trust, and that manifests it low morale and difficulties with mental health."](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/DSC_0145-1200x800.jpg)
Palo Alto Educators Association members plan to speak at tonight's Palo Alto Unified School District board meeting as educators aim to demonstrate...
Editors’ Note: Resources for any person who is feeling depressed, troubled or suicidal are listed at the bottom of this article. Palo Alto...
![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)
The series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” produced by showrunner Ira Parker and based on George R.R. Martin's series of best-selling books,...
Sleep. A necessity, but for many students, a luxury. Generally 8-10 hours of sleep is recommended nightly, but some students fail to get enough...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted the 98th Academy Awards (informally known as the Oscars) this Sunday. Here is The Paly...
“You keep dancing with the devil, one day, he’s going to follow you home.” Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners," a Southern gothic horror...
“And thus the heart will break yet brokenly live on.” —Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage As a Royal Danish Navy ship drifts...
A limited-edition '90s-style branded jacket, obnoxious orange ping pong balls and a remix with U.K.-based rapper EsDeeKid. These are only a few...
