Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Rose, third grade teacher at Awbrey Park Elementary, poses with current and former students during an AVID Spotlight event ...

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Twenty-five years ago then-principal Enriqueta “Henri” Newland took a few of her Will C. Wood High School staff down to San Diego to look at a program being used successfully in schools down there. It ...

A gathering of AVID students at Peninsula High is under guidance of Matt Robles, AVID 11 Instructor, center, standing. Hugh McMillan Contributing Writer I’ve been exposed to the AVID program for years ...