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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.

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 [...]

Mark your calendars! On Monday October 6, the Alameda PTA Council and the Alameda Education Foundation are co-sponsoring a debate among the five candidates running for AUSD School Board.
The debate begins at 7:00pm at Alameda High School’s “Little Theater” and is expected to run until about 8:30pm.  The “Little Theater” is on the south side [...]

After reading the relevant statutes once again (especially Ed Code section 5091(b)), it now appears likely (but not yet certain) that a School Board vacancy would have to occur at least 130 days before the regularly scheduled election (i.e., before now) in order for the “special election” to be consolidated with the regular scheduled election.
I [...]

I thought July was supposed to be the month that not much happens in AUSD. Clearly, that won’t be the case this July.
In her “Life on the Island” column “Changes in School Leadership Offers New Opportunities” in today’s Alameda Journal, Eve Pearlman reports that AUSD School Board Trustee Tracy Jensen is looking at a [...]