Archive for February, 2008
Lottery redux
There’s an update on the Franklin and Edison lotteries on the school district’s website at:
http://www.alameda.k12.ca.us/education/components/calendar/default.php?sectiondetailid=3&d=5&m=3&y=2008&et=day&PHPSESSID=780ae8f80526a3f0fc4630cdf59dcbf6
8:30 am at Edison, 3 pm at Franklin. Parents will be notified of the results in writing after the random drawings.
Thanks to Donna Fletcher at AUSD for the update!
Mayoral pay raise?
The City Council is set to discuss changes to the city’s charter Tuesday. Among the changes in the charter language, some of which is three-quarters of a century old, are little things like removing the City Manager’s authority to create a “police secret fund,” requiring the city’s auditor and treasurer to have proper accounting credentials, [...]
Lottery date is set …
… for Wednesday, March 5. Time TBA. Sounds like we’ll have the full 411 tomorrow.
Friends, Alamedans, countrymen … lend me your wallets
Did anyone catch the sales tax chart on the city’s website today? It shows that Alameda ranks almost dead last in the county in the amount of sales tax it rakes in per resident (only Piedmont did worse). The statewide and county averages for the past fiscal year ending September 30 were $141 and $148 [...]
You gotta be in it to win it
Well, it’s official: Kindergartners slated to enter Edison and Franklin schools this fall will be facing a lottery. The district has not yet set a date, spokeswoman Donna Fletcher said. The lottery was delayed because the district was trying to find ways to fix the overenrollment problem at some of its schools, she said. The [...]
Six hours later …
Here’s the quick and dirty rundown from the school board’s six hour gabfest last night/this morning:
*As expected, unanimous no for Renaissance Leadership Academy charter school. It remains to be seen whether they appeal to the county board of ed like the Alameda Community Learning Center, whose expansion plans were nixed by the school board last [...]
“The most important BOE meeting in years”
That from school board Vice President Mike McMahon, regarding Tuesday’s meeting. On the agenda: the Renaissance Leadership Academy charter school proposal (getting more on this), elementary capacity solutions, a looming fiscal apocalypse … and a special election for a $120 a year parcel tax for the schools, which, if approved by voters this June, would [...]
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