Dance Team places third and fourth at Nationals
Olivia Ramberg-Gomez and Margaret Li
March 24, 2019
Over the past weekend, the Palo Alto High School dance team attended its fourth annual U.S.A. Dance Nationals in Anaheim, California. This year, the team clinched third in the Character Dance Division for its musical theater group dance “Waitress” and took fourth place in the Open Small Dance Division for its contemporary group dance “Hue.”
![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)
