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Board votes to close school
Students will go to Woodside BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A TIDE ACADEMY STUDENT reacts to news of the school closing last night. Post photo by Adriana Hernandez.
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GUTHRIE WANTS PROOF: NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie sent a public message to her 84-year-old mother’s kidnapper yesterday saying that her family is ready to talk but wants proof that she is alive. Guthrie said in a recorded video posted on social media that her family has heard media reports about a ransom letter for Nancy Guthrie, who authorities believe was taken from her home in Arizona against her will. SOME ICE PULLED: President Donald Trump’s border czar says he is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to turn over arrested immigrants. Tom Homan says about 700 federal officers [See THE UPDATE, page 4]
City loses SF airport fight
Alto representatives said SFO did not properly analyze potential increases San Francisco is moving forward in noise and air pollution from the with plans to expand SFO and claim- completed project, which calls for ing Palo Alto is “overcomplicating” creating a new terminal at SFO with the move by insisting no research is up to 13 passenger gates, parking and done on how the noise will impact rental car facilities, and other updates by 2045. residents. But San Francisco Environmental During the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ meeting Tuesday, Palo Review Officer Lisa Gibson said the BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
finished expansion will not increase the number of aircraft flights, and therefore has zero impact on noise. “I think they’re (Palo Alto) kind of grasping at something here and overcomplicating,” Gibson said. The city submitted an appeal in December 2025 to have the expansion’s environmental report, which is [See SFO, page 22]
Supreme Court OKs Prop. 50 map The Supreme Court yesterday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.
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No justices dissented from the brief order denying the appeal without explanation, which is common on the court’s emergency docket. The justices had previously allowed Texas’ Republican-friendly map to be used in 2026, despite a lower-court rul-
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The Sequoia Union High School District’s board voted unanimously last night to close a small magnet school in Menlo Park and move the students to Woodside High School. TIDE Academy’s campus at 150 Jefferson Drive in east Menlo Park will close at the end of the school year. The students who currently attend TIDE Academy will continue their STEM-focused program when they relocate to Woodside High School. TIDE Academy parents and students who filled the district office yesterday jeered at the vote, and some in the crowd declared
the five board members will face recalls over the vote. For more than an hour, teachers, parents and students of the school pleaded with the board to keep TIDE, which has fewer than 200 students, open. Some said the board had already made up its mind before last night’s vote. “The options before you this evening are all destruction. Targeting some of the most vulnerable communities who are at risk of losing the most,” parent Toni Ouradnik said. The board had three options yesterday — to do nothing, layoff employees, phase out the TIDE’s closure over three years or close [See SCHOOL, page 22]
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