The Alameda Board of Education voted to approve the use of 21 new books intended to broaden representation of people of different races and ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations and people with disabilities in the Island’s …

Alameda’s Board of Education is set to consider a list of books for grade schoolers at its meeting tonight that’s intended to bolster the school district’s anti-bullying efforts – and replace the district’s anti-gay bullying …

School district officials are working on a list of books for grade schoolers aimed at curbing bullying based on race, religion and a variety of other factors.
The effort is an outgrowth of the Board of …

Updated 6:00 a.m. Friday, February 19
A pair of Alameda parents is suing the school district and school board, claiming the board violated the Brown Act by voting to readopt the anti-gay bullying Lesson 9 and …

A pair of Alameda parents is suing the school district and school board, claiming the board violated the Brown Act by voting to readopt the anti-gay bullying Lesson 9 and to adopt accompanying literature that …

As a Jewish person, or a person of Jewish ancestry, or a non-religious, Jewish-identified person – or however you like to describe me (and you would think I would have adopted an appropriate phrase after …

The School Board decided Tuesday night to adopt new anti-bullying lessons for the district’s elementary schools and to retain a lesson intended to halt anti-gay bullying until new ones that specifically address bullying on the …

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch on Tuesday affirmed a tentative ruling denying a group of parents’ request to be allowed to opt their children out of elementary school lessons intended to curtail anti-gay …

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has tentatively denied a request by some local parents to require the school district to allow their children to opt out of lessons designed to halt anti-gay bullying.
Judge Frank …

Updated 9:24 a.m. Thursday, August 13
A group of 20 Alameda parents have filed a lawsuit against the school district in Alameda County Superior Court because the district has denied their requests to opt out of …

The school board voted 4-1 Monday night not to hear an appeal of a complaint filed by a parent who opposes the anti-gay bullying lessons the board approved in May.
Kerry Cook, a parent who has …