The South Bay’s largest school district is losing students. San Jose Unified School District officials on Wednesday will review a 200-page report on which neighborhoods are shrinking the fastest. In 2016, about 30,000 students belonged to the San Jose Unified School District. By 2023, the district expects that fewer than 27,000 students will enroll – which is a loss of 3,500 students or a 12 percent drop, the report says. The report indicates that the ever-rising cost of livi

My parents were not born in the USA. Both emigrated to America from Italy when they were adults. For approximately 10 years, my family lived in an apartment on Willow Street in the largely immigrant neighborhood that has been known by many names over the years, depending on who you asked: Washington, Sacred Heart, Goosetown. My parents, both career teachers, made a choice to live on a tight budget during that time, which enabled them to make a down payment on the first and on