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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Alameda Board of Education is holding a special meeting today in the third floor of district headquarters, 2200 Central Avenue. The public session begins at 5 p.m.
The meeting – the board’s first in more …

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 …