The School Board is being asked to look at changing enrollment on school boundaries. AUSD staff is working hard to clarify enrollment and reduce the unpredictable nature of enrollment, but are they focusing on small gains that will have large impacts on some families?
Follow-up on the Edison Enrollment discussion.
Edison’s kindergarten enrollment deadline was last Friday. And the damage is…..
The Renaissance Leadership Academy will have its first public hearing tonight at the board. There will be no vote for another month or so, but this is the time to gather information ahead of that time.
I hope the board will ask:
I had lunch with a friend the other day. A supporter of charter schools in general, and possibly a supporter of the upcoming Renaissance Leadership charter application.
As one who has always subscribed to the idea that different kids learn differently, and therefore we should teach kids in different ways, I think I might be a [...]
It seems that nothing brings out the passions of Alamedans more than school issues. Last year’s budget problem rallied hundreds of parents and residents, the Kindergarten Lottery issue roiled hundreds more, and now charter applications have the internet jumping.
Reading a number of different discussion boards (Check out the Alameda Schools Connection) and blog posts (LD’s [...]
Lauren Do has a great discussion on Charter Schools in Alameda.
I noticed a recurring theme in a couple of comments made here:
“My idea of the greater good is that the best and brightest kids get the chance to “emerge…
Tomorrow night, the school board will be discussing the short-term kindergarten enrollment policy issue (G-1 Revision of Enrollment Policy AR 5116.1 Inf/60). This issue has raised a lot of concern in the Edison district, but appears to not have caught too much fire around the rest of the district.
Mike McMahon’s most excellent website has many [...]
Finally. The item we’ve all been waiting for at the school board!
5.) Superintendent’s State of the District - Focus Educational Excellence, Boundaries & Facilities
Which is just a sexy way of saying “a long public process to discuss how to deal with fluctuating student populations in Alameda’s schools, and other things.”
Actually, it’s been talked about for [...]
So I quickly ran a comparison between the Existing Language and the proposed of the AUSD Administrative Policy 5116.1 that will be discussed tonight. Below I have highlighted the proposed changes which amount to two things:
Higher prioritization for families with older kids already attending Edison. This [...]
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