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![EMPTY SEAT — At the March 17 Palo Alto Unified School District board meeting, a decision was made to mutually separate acting Superintendent Trent Bahadursingh from the Board. PAUSD board member Rowena Chiu said that she hopes for more transparency in the leadership model for the school district. “Some of the core values I look at [in a superintendent] are collaboration and empathy,” Chiu said.](https://verdemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TRENT-BAHADURSINGH-NO-WHERE-TO-BE-FOUND-1200x800.jpg)
![MARCHING FOR CHANGE -- Teachers rally before entering the Palo Alto unified school district board meeting chanting “invest in education, not in reserves.” The Palo Alto Educators Association rallied to ask for a 5.5% teacher salary raise to compete with the cost of living in Palo Alto. “We’re asking to be paid and have equal benefits to a lot of the districts around us [and to help] the cost of living increase and those types of things," Teachers in the the Palo Alto Educators Association rallied at the Palo Alto unified school district board meeting to ask for a 5.5% salary raise. “We’re asking to be paid and have equal benefits to a lot of the districts around us [and to help] the cost of living increase and those types of things,” Karen Easton, a first-grade teacher at Fairmeadow Elementary School said.](https://verdemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/P4230608-1200x900.jpg)