Deep Impact

Tonight the School Board will be hearing about the second charter school application to come down the pipeline during these upcoming difficult financial times.   Renaissance Leadership Academy, although there’s not a whole lot in it about cultivating future leaders for their K-8 population, will be presenting their application tonight.   It will not be voted on tonight though.   But also being presented is information about how the proposed State level budget cuts will be affecting the Alameda Unified School District as a whole.   From the Alameda Journal:

…Overall, the district will lose about $4 million under the governor’s plan, which also calls for immediate suspension of the law that ensures basic public school funding.

“This is going to be felt all around,” Cazares said Friday. “It looks pretty dire for us. And I’d say at this point cuts are inevitable.”

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