School 94501/94502

As Michele Ellson reported in July, in 2008 the Paden School PTA completed a multi-year fundraising effort to purchase a new, cool, safe play structure to replace the very old, somewhat dangerous structure that had been in place since the 1990’s.
In the end, the Paden PTA decided to save thousands of dollars in installation costs [...]

Well, last week marked the end of the “first quarter” of the academic year for public schools in Alameda.  Although we’re less than 25% through the “calendar days” of the 2008-2009 school year, we’ve now passed the 25% mark of “school days.”
As we’ve all been working hard doing what we do in the classroom, the [...]

For any who might be interested, last Monday’s PTAC-AEF School Board Candidate Forum is now online (in “chapter” form) via the AEF website.
A link is the “featured video” on the AEF home page http://alamedaeducationfoundation.org/
The total running time of the event was roughly 1:45ish.

AUSD has issued a Press Release announcing that it (1) has retained the law firms of Chapman, Popik & White LLP and Foley & Lardner LLP and (2) will vigorously defend Measure H.
“Vigorously defend” sounds good to me.
For anyone interested:  below is the full text of the Press Release:
MEASURE H LITIGATION
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, October 8, [...]

This is a reminder that Monday night at 7pm at Alameda High’s “Little Theater” (just east of the corner of Central and Walnut) the PTA Council and AEF are co-sponsoring a “forum” for the candidates for the AUSD School Board.
The format is slightly different from the format of the League of Women Voters candidate forum [...]

School 94501/94502 is preparing busily to go back to school and so will be unlikely to post anything for a while.  Hope to see you in September!

Tomorrow night’s School Board meeting marks the official opening of the AUSD “Preseason” for the 08-09 school year. (Regular season begins just three weeks from now on September 2 with the first day of school for students.)
The most important event of this year’s AUSD Preseason is tomorrow night’s kickoff of the search for AUSD’s next [...]

With so many changes, challenges and opportunities confronting AUSD, it can be difficult to keep up and to think carefully about “what’s next.”
For my money, above all else, the selection of our next Superintendent will be the single most important decision in shaping all that is to come.
I realize the School Board has not yet [...]

Among the many challenges our schools still face is the difficult question of how best to continue to pay for school sports programs.
Since I think the many answers to the question “why pay for school sports?” are obvious (or at least can be saved for another occasion), I’ll skip right past “why” to a story [...]

In my last post here (”What’s Next, What’s Next?“), I raised some questions that should be part of the discussion of what’s next for AUSD. Let me now add a really big new question:
Who should be the next Superintendent of AUSD?
Although there is yet to be any “official word” from her office, the AUSD rumor [...]