The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

Scanners accompanied by designated computers have been installed in classrooms for students to use to check into class.

New attendance scanners have mixed results

Vedant Desikamani and Ylin Zhu November 18, 2022

Cal High’s new ID scanners were implemented in October with the purpose of streamlining the attendance system. But they have created attendance errors, false tardies and other issues as students and...

Students work on their Chromebooks, which were provided by the school district this year for the first time.

Students provided with Chromebooks

Katya Vial, Staff Writer October 19, 2021

San Ramon Valley Unified School District has issued more than 32,000 electronic devices this year, with second through 12th  graders receiving a Google Chromebook. Cal High assistant principal Tucker...

Technology received nearly 2/3rds of COVID-19 funding for the district.

District and site budgets reflect pandemic

Shravya Salem Sathish, A&E Editor October 15, 2021

The focus of the district’s budgets has shifted during remote and in-person learning.  In March 2020, the state issued learning loss mitigation funds, which addressed the transition to online instruction...

The rise of the planet of the cars

Arman Tafazzoli, Managing Editor November 16, 2012

Imagine driving down the freeway, windows rolled down, tweeting with one hand, Big Mac in the other, legs off the pedals, enjoying the smooth drive of Google’s self-driving, autonomous car. Sounds...

Teaching by Texting

March 15, 2011
Texting may be the new solution to keeping kids focused in class.

Technology schools teachers

November 2, 2010
Cheating used to mean dropping your pencil, and sneaking a glance at your neighbor’s paper on the way down to pick it up. But with advances in technology, students use their tech savvy to cheat in more sophisticated ways than ever before.

Students learn to keep it simple

November 2, 2010
Students learning about Transcendentalism give up things in their life and learn something about themselves.
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