School 94501/94502

This week I am fortunate to have an Op-Ed piece about Measure H running in the Alameda Sun and in the Alameda Journal. The piece attempts to explain what is at stake with Measure H and why it would be irresponsible and unrealistic to adopt a “Sacramento only strategy” (i.e., We cannot vote no on [...]

At its meeting Tuesday evening (April 22), the Alameda County Board of Education voted 6-0 (with Dennis Chaconas absent) to deny the charter school application of the proposed new NCLC charter school in Alameda.
As you may recall, after the AUSD school board voted 5-0 in January to deny NCLC’s charter school application, ACLC-NCLC appealed to [...]

When the state fails in its responsibility to fund public education adequately, local communities currently only have two legal options: (1) get more than two thirds of voters to pass a local school parcel tax and/or (2) look to an education foundation as a partner to increase private fundraising.
I’ve written plenty about the parcel tax [...]

In order to leave no stone unturned in our efforts to protect Alameda education as we know it, we must commit BOTH (1) to pass Measure H on June 3 AND (2) to continue to fight the long battle at the state level to fix the broken school funding system.
In my last substantive posting here, [...]

For some reason, this site has been inundated with spam comments today.  So, at least temporarily, I have changed the settings so one has to “register” before commenting.  I promise not to do anything with the email addresses of anyone registering except for using the address to determine whether you are in fact a real [...]

As more and more Alamedans are now coming to understand, California’s school finance system is broken. But based on the complaints of Measure H opponents, I am concerned that not as many Alamedans also understand that many of us already have been working hard for years to fix that broken system and will [...]