Getting ready for The Academy
By Stacy Lawrence
At today’s Board of Education meeting, Alameda Unified School District officials will provide an update on The Academy of Alameda Middle School. That’s the charter school approved by the School Board late last year as a replacement for Chipman Middle School, and it will open this fall.
Due to the mandates of the federal [...]
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 [...]
School Board set to decide on Chipman charter Tuesday
The School Board is slated to make a decision tonight on a charter proposal put forward by parents and teachers who hope it can replace Chipman Middle School. District staff is recommending approval.
If approved, the charter is anticipated to open to students in fall 2010. The charter approval would be good from July 1, 2010 [...]
Chipman charter proponents make pitch
The School Board on Tuesday night heard the pitch for a new charter that would replace Chipman Middle School.
Proponents of the Academy of Alameda charter laid out a plan to create a school that would shuffle the instructional program, the school day and even the physical environment students would face each day in order to [...]
School board tables charter policy revision
The School Board decided Tuesday night to hold off on a proposal to change a freshly approved policy on charter schools. District staff had said the changes are needed to establish firm process and accountability rules for new charter applicants in response to a spate of inquiries from people considering new charter schools on the [...]
School board considers amending charter policy
In what I’m sure is going to be an ohsobrief meeting (ha!), the School Board is set to consider changes to their charter school policy that would, in the words of board President Mike McMahon, who kindly summarized:
The proposed language will make explicit that a charter is a contract requiring mutual accountability focused on student [...]
Nea charter hits language snag
Tonight, the school board will again discuss postponing approval of an agreement between Alameda Unified at the Nea Community Learning Center, a K-12 charter that is slated to open this fall. No date to sign the agreement has been set, according to one of the school’s founders, though she said she is confident the agreement [...]
NEA CHARTER APPROVED
The school board on Tuesday night approved a charter application for Nea Community Learning Center. The vote was 3-1, with Trustee Janet Gibson casting the sole vote against the charter and Board President Bill Schaff absent.
The charter will move forward pending an agreement with the district that must be signed by January 31, 2009. Separately, [...]
UPDATED Yea Nea?
UPDATED 1:27 p.m.
Tonight’s school board meeting promises to be an exciting one. The board will introduce our new superintendent, Kirsten Vital, and its members are slated to make a decision regarding Nea Community Learning Center’s application for a K-12 charter school that could, if approved, open next fall.
District staff is recommending the school board approve [...]
New Nea application heard
The folks proposing the Nea Community Learning Center charter school presented their new-and-improved application to the school board on Tuesday night, offering a raft of changes to the application rejected by the school board and the Alameda County Board of Education earlier this year.
The proposed charter’s Maafi Gueye said that the school would now be [...]
New NEA
We’ve got some fresh charter school news for you: Looks like the folks behind the Nea Community Learning Center (the same folks who brought you the Alameda Community Learning Center charter) have submitted a new charter school application to the school district.
The school district turned down Nea’s application in January, saying it lacked sufficient detail. [...]
