Charter Schools
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 [...]
I’d like to thank the Academy
Eve Pearlman wrote a really great article about The Academy of Alameda Middle School on Friday at the Island. For those of you that did not catch it, highlights here:
The Academy was developed with careful consideration for the community that the new school would likely be serving and to research-based methods for supporting student [...]
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 [...]
Saucer of milk, table for two…school board style
On Tuesday night, the School Board in a special session voted to approve the charter petition for the Academy of Alameda. Yay!
And here’s the answer to the question that you may (or may not) be asking. Trish the Charter School proponent showed up on Tuesday night to not only cast a vote approving the [...]
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 [...]
A Chipman off the old block
As reported by Michele Ellson, at Tuesday night’s School Board meeting a group of parents and teachers presented the School Board with an application to turn Chipman charter.
So, full disclosure, I am a member of the Founding Board for the new charter school which will be named the Academy of Alameda. When I was [...]
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 [...]
