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Palo Alto to open new history muesum

PLANS

Are Being Made

to build a new Palo Alto History museum by the end of 2024, according to the president of the museum’s board of directors.

On April 17, City Council made the final agreements in a deal which allows a private Palo Alto board of directors to build the museum in the unused Roth Building near City Hall.

Rich Green, president of the museum’s board, said that construction will start in July and take around one year to complete. Exhibits will be installed mid-2024 after over two decades of work on the project.

“We’ve had some bumps along the way but overall our efforts have been extremely successful,” Green said.

According to Green, Palo Alto needs a history museum for people can understand and love the place they live in.

“History museums have a huge responsibility to acquire, preserve, curate, and display key artifacts that tell stories of people and events,” Green said.

by OTTO KISS MEYERFREUND

Multivariable calculus to be offered next

MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS will be offered after school next year at Palo Alto High School following numerous statements in school board meetings and an open letter to the Board of Education co-signed by over 400 people.

Multivariable Calculus, an advanced math class that comes after BC calculus, is currently not offered at Palo Alto High School nor Henry M. Gunn High School. Historically, students have taken this class at Foothill College, but recent changes to state-dual enrollment laws have made it harder for high school students to enroll.

Paly sophomore Aleksey Valouev attended a board meeting to express his desires for multivariable calculus.

“I am disappointed. Like so many others, my family came to this district in search of better education, better resources, better policies,” Valouev said. “And yet, we lag behind our neighbors in a subject we once prided ourselves in excelling in: math.”

An email fron superintendent Don Austin later announced that Paly would offer a high-schooler-only Multivariable calculus class at, resolving most of the requests from and issues expressed in the open letter.

by ASHRAY GUPTA , JONAS PAO and RAHUL SHETTY

Text by OTTO KISS MEYERFREUND and NADAV STERNHEIM