Ed Board to chat about charters
Alameda’s Board of Education is set to consider extending the Alameda Community Learning Center’s charter by five years with changes that would completely separate the school from the district. District staff is recommending approval of the extension.
At its regular meeting Tuesday – which will be held at the Alameda High School Little Theater at the [...]
Eve Pearlman: Swim together, right now
As you may have heard, come next fall there will be a new charter school opening its doors in Alameda.
The Academy of Alameda Middle School will almost certainly be housed in the current site of Chipman. The West End middle school is right now in its fourth year of ‘program improvement,’ a designation given to [...]
School Board okays Chipman charter
The School Board voted 5-0 Tuesday night to approve The Academy of Alameda Middle School charter. The school, which is being eyed as a replacement for Chipman Middle School, is expected to be up and running next fall.
“Now comes the hard part,” Bill Schaff, vice president of the school’s founding board, told The Island on [...]






