School 94501/94502

Four and a half months ago when I started this little blog, I hoped it would be “a place to learn about school in general and about Alameda schools in particular.”
Although I am an employee of AUSD, I am also a parent of two AUSD students. When blogging, I try to wear my “parent [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“What’s Next, What’s Next?”  That’s a question I’ve heard many times in the past few weeks since it has been clear that Measure H really would pass.
The Measure H campaign mobilized and educated a lot of talented people who want to continue helping out Alameda’s schools. One of the many great things about Measure H’s [...]