Archive for February, 2008
Lottery redux
There’s an update on the Franklin and Edison lotteries on the school district’s website at:http://www.alameda.k12.ca.us/education/components/calendar/default.php?sectiondetailid=3&d=5&m=3&y=2008&et=day&PHPSESSID=780ae8f80526a3f0fc46…
Why paying taxes is patriotic
I just posted this over there at Lauren Do’s blog, in response to someone’s suggestion that the school district is living beyond its means:
Sometimes I think we might be looking at this in all the wrong ways. Maybe we should be asking what do we think public schools in the (arguably) richest nation in the [...]
Sharrow the Road
The city installs its first ever Sharrow on Oak Street.
Mayoral pay raise?
The City Council is set to discuss changes to the city’s charter Tuesday. Among the changes in the charter language, some of which is three-quarters of a century old, are little things like removing the City Manager’s authority to create a “police secr…
Where does the green waste go?
Opt in, opt out
There is this very odd notion that seems to flying around some people’s heads that the problems of AUSD lies in mismanagement of funds. One of the recent Letters to the Editor to the Alameda Journal closed with this line:
…Perhaps we need leaders, not politicians or administrators, who can live within their means.
While certainly the writer did [...]
Lottery date is set …
… for Wednesday, March 5. Time TBA. Sounds like we’ll have the full 411 tomorrow.
You gotta be in it to win it
Well, it’s official: Kindergartners slated to enter Edison and Franklin schools this fall will be facing a lottery. The district has not yet set a date, spokeswoman Donna Fletcher said. The lottery was delayed because the district was trying to find wa…
Alamedans take action for schools
Parents and teachers from Franklin and Paden Elementary delivered their own hand-crafted letters to Sacramento yesterday, meeting with aides from the offices of Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi and Senator Don Perata.
Ardella Dailey, AUSD’s superintendent of schools, and school board members Mike McMahon and Janet Gibson also made the trip to Sacramento, participating in [...]
ClifBar: None
Sadness, we can’t even get it together to lock in a sure thing. ClifBar is apparently terminating their relationship with Catellus because things are moving too slowly for their timeline. They had wanted to move in this year, and seemed willing to wait for a little bit longer after the whole instabilty of the pilings was [...]
