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The addition of Proposition 28 provides additional funding for MVHS arts departments, helping to continue sustaining these courses.

Keeping the arts alive

Manas Kottakota, Nameek Chowdhury, and Minjae Kang • June 1, 2023
How declining enrollment and Proposition 28 are affecting the arts department
Exploring the aspirations and passions of six inspiring women and girls from MVHS

Women shaping the future

Avni Gandhi, Aashna Patel, and Jiya Singh • April 20, 2023
Exploring the aspirations and passions of six inspiring women and girls from MVHS
Seperate subjects dont do students justice anymore. A collaborative environment is necessary

Woman in administration: Janice Chen

Avni Gandhi • April 17, 2023

Sitting in her living room as a child, assistant principal Janice Chen played “teacher-student” with her younger brother where she pretended to be a teacher and taught him various academic subjects...

Illustration | Lillian Wang

Health and Ethnic Studies

Krish Dev and Mihir Vishwarupe • February 11, 2023

MVHS will implement a new course option of one semester each of Health and Ethnic Studies for freshmen star ting the 2023-24 school year, and it will be mandated for all in the 2024-25 school year,...

A photo showing the front of the HHS cafeteria and its mustang statue.

Mustang to Matador

Samika Bhatkar and Krish Dev • December 22, 2022
FUHSD Board passes proposal to help with MVHS’s declining enrollment
Students in the ACT program plant flowers, fruits and vegetables using SSC funding.

Funding new projects

Megha Mummaneni and Angela Zhang • November 14, 2022

On Oct. 4, the School Site Council met for its first meeting of the year, and its first in person meeting in two years, to approve funding requests for various student and staff activities, including professional...

Sophomore Jami Lim checks her schedule

Runaway of the bulls

Anika Bhandarkar, Anna Jerolimov, Pranati Kotamraju, Jami Lim, Aashi Venkat, and Anabelle Walker • September 8, 2022
Students and staff discuss the reasons for and the impacts of the cancellation of ROTB
Coronavirus illustration, different size viruses on a gradient background. Illustration by the CDC

COVID-19 surges for weeks following winter break

Krish Dev, Website Editor • January 24, 2022
Understanding the increase in COVID-19 cases at FUHSD
Insight Diagnostics admisters COVID-19 rapid antigen and PCR testing on Wednesdays in front of the auditorium.

FUHSD implements on-campus COVID-19 procedures

Devin Gupta, Managing and Web Editor • September 26, 2021
Exploring how students diagnosed with COVID-19 are quarantined
Juniors taking the CAASPP take a lunch break after their first math testing session on May 12. Photo by Sophia Chen

CAASPP testing during COVID-19

Sophia Chen, Copy Editor • May 20, 2021
Examining the logistics behind in-person standardized testing

Day In a Life of a New Normal

Rachel Jiang • May 16, 2021
Exploring MVHS during in-person hybrid learning
Investigating the interactions between teachers, unions, districts and communities that shaped the reopening of schools

“Parent bullies” and “teachers who cried wolf”

Anushka De and Riya Ravuri • March 19, 2021
How disadvantaged students and financial incentives led to schools resuming in-person instruction
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