AUSD

Redeveloping our schools

March 14, 2007

There’s been a lot of talk about the effect of redevelopment on the current AUSD School Budget. While hints of this non-controversy started on Lauren Do’s site, I was approached by a city councilmember at the first Alamedans for Better Schools meeting in February who started hinting at his concerns about all the redevelopment...

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Safety in numbers

February 14, 2007
Safety in numbers

This handout (on Mike McMahon’s site) caught my eye at the Alameda for Better Schools (ABS) meeting last week. It’s a graph showing the Base Revenue Limit for each school in Unified School District in Alameda County. The Base Revenue Limit is the amount per student that the schools get from the state, and...

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Mack the Knife – AUSD edition

January 30, 2007

At last night, school staff released Proposed School Reductions in order to stave off a deficit of over $2million for FY 2007-2008. I haven’t had a chance to look too closely, or try to understand what some of the cuts are, but key one’s that jump out at me are consolidating 3 Middle Schools...

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School’s Out

January 29, 2007

In a convergence of issues surrounding schools, there were 35 parents standing in line last night for Kindergarten registration at Edison School. (Registration opened at 8:00am this morning). By this morning, KRON 4 and KTVU had news trucks at the school and Marcheta Williams, Edison School Principal, was interviewed on KFOG. Crazy!

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