If so, we haven’t seen the evidence. In 1999, Santiago won California Distinguished School status. Last week, parents showed up at a trustees’ meeting to show support.

District officials began investigating the school after the Jan. 4 arrest of Sarah Bench-Salorio, a 28-year-old Santiago teacher, on suspicion of having had sex with two students, both 13.

SANTIAGO CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL Each year, some of the 200 students in Jason Askenaze‘s Industrial Technology classes are involved in a service-learning project. In addition to the wood-working ...

Middle school math teacher Tara Santiago stands in front of the blueprints for the home-design project she does with her students every year at Countryside School in Champaign.

Students study in a seventh-grade science class at South Junior High School in Anaheim. Christian Olalde solves a problem at Mendez Fundamental School in Santa Ana. Students at Pioneer Middle ...