202 days ago- Just in time for Valentine’s Day this year, San Mateo and Foster City voters could give their elementary and middle schools a gift — $175 million to improve facilities, from adding new classrooms to improving air conditioning in some buildings. On Monday, the Foster City Council is expected to pass a resolution supporting the San Mateo-Foster City School District’s Measure L, a $175 million general-obligation bond slated for the Feb. 5 ballot.
263 days ago- Originally meant for a November meeting, it could be December before Foster City residents see a lease signed on their final 15 acres of property.
269 days ago- When Foster City was first envisioned almost 50 years ago, there was no way T. Jack Foster and his colleagues could have planned for the Internet explosion and rise of Silicon Valley that brought residents flooding into the Bay Area.
276 days ago- Sunday’s high-tech robbery in Foster City shared similar traits with one other local break-in and other incidents from around Northern California.
280 days ago- In six years, every student in one San Mateo school will be taught Mandarin Chinese along with the traditional lessons, in one of five new magnet programs beginning this year thanks to more than $7 million in federal funds.
280 days ago- Although a strike was averted and a teachers’ contract has been agreed on, the aftermath of more than a year of animosity still hangs over the San Mateo-Foster City School District, and repairing that rift may be the biggest task faced by candidates in coming years.
301 days ago- The night before a fact-finding report was due out, bargaining teams for the San Mateo Elementary Teachers Association and San Mateo-Foster City School District reached a tentative agreement, averting a strike and settling more than a year of animosity.
309 days ago- Being a substitute teacher in San Mateo and Foster City could become very lucrative in the event of a school-district strike — although both sides in the ongoing salary battle say they’re fighting to avoid that scenario.
310 days ago- With a symbolic “good luck,” the foundation fighting to give Foster City its own high school was sent looking for funding elsewhere Monday night, possibly dooming the project — unless $15 million can be raised for construction.
319 days ago- Foster City’s SolarCity, a solar system installation company, has received $21 million in new investments with the closure of its latest round of fundraising. The financing was provided by lead investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson with additional contributions from JP Morgan (JPM) and Elon Musk, chairman of both SolarCity and the San Carlos-based electric car company Tesla motors.
319 days ago- The “S” word is being floated around San Mateo and Foster City schools this school year, and teachers are as dismayed as they would be if it was coming from their students’ mouths.