UPDATED: ALAMEDA FIRE CHIEF ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE
1, September 2, 2010 – 10:43 am | 8 Comments

Updated 1:23 p.m. Thursday, September 2
Alameda Fire Chief David Kapler has been placed on administrative leave following revelations he used the city’s gas pumps to fuel his personal vehicles and that he had faced similar …

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Washington families could switch schools under new state rules
1, August 31, 2010 – 5:00 am | No Comment
Washington families could switch schools under new state rules

Parents with students at Washington Elementary School could seek to send their children to higher-performing schools in the district – or anywhere else in California – thanks to a state law put into effect just …

Alameda Unified’s Green Schools Challenge wins award
1, August 31, 2010 – 4:45 am | No Comment

Alameda Unified’s Green Schools Challenge has earned the California Resource Recovery Association’s “Next Generation” recycler award. The honor was presented to the district’s custodial staff, and faculty and students from Bay Farm Elementary School spoke …

Back to school!
1, August 30, 2010 – 5:00 am | One Comment
Back to school!

Today marks the first day of school for Alameda’s public schoolkids, and for many families, it could be a bittersweet milestone. Deep state funding cuts and continuing budget uncertainty – and the failure of the …

Board of Ed votes to maintain childcare programs – temporarily
1, August 25, 2010 – 5:00 am | One Comment
Board of Ed votes to maintain childcare programs – temporarily

Alameda’s Board of Education voted Tuesday night to maintain largely state-funded toddler and school-age care programs for another 45 days. The programs had been slated to close on Friday.
Trustee Tracy Jensen warned parents who attended …

Board of Ed to discuss Plan B timeline Tuesday
1, August 24, 2010 – 4:50 am | No Comment
Board of Ed to discuss Plan B timeline Tuesday

Alameda’s Board of Education is set to discuss a timeline for considering school closures and fresh budget cuts for upcoming school years – and another for putting a fresh parcel tax request before voters.
Under the …

Water bills could force Island High and Woodstock to move
1, August 23, 2010 – 5:00 am | No Comment
Water bills could force Island High and Woodstock to move

Officials at Alameda’s cash-strapped school district may seek to move Island High School and the Woodstock Child Development Center to avoid water and sewer bills they’d otherwise need to pay if they keep the schools …

School district seeks participants for surplus property committee
1, August 19, 2010 – 4:45 am | 4 Comments
School district seeks participants for surplus property committee

School district leaders are looking for help in determining what to do with the old Island High School site and Tidelands property it owns on Buena Vista Avenue, neither of which are being used by …

Woodstock parents set up child care meet
1, August 17, 2010 – 4:50 am | One Comment
Woodstock parents set up child care meet

Parents who are slated to lose their childcare programs if state leaders don’t fund them this fall are meeting this afternoon and tonight to look for ways to keep those programs alive.
Parents whose children attend …

Parents ask district to keep childcare services
1, August 11, 2010 – 5:00 am | 4 Comments
Parents ask district to keep childcare services

Families packed City Hall on Tuesday night to beg the school board not to shutter Woodstock Child Development Center and other childcare services on which they rely. Woodstock offers subsidized child care for low income …

District set to slash child care programs
1, August 10, 2010 – 5:00 am | 4 Comments
District set to slash child care programs

Alameda Unified School District officials are getting set to cut toddler and school-age child care programs for next year in anticipation of state funding cuts to those programs.
Toddler and school-age programs offered at Woodstock Child …

SECOND SCHOOL FINANCE SUIT FILED
1, July 13, 2010 – 4:50 am | 2 Comments
SECOND SCHOOL FINANCE SUIT FILED

A group of community organizations, parents and students has filed a second lawsuit in state court seeking to have California’s school funding system declared unconstitutional.
The suit makes some of the same legal claims as another …