Politics & Government

Alameda School Board to Look at Money, Magnets

Also on Tuesday night's agenda: a first step in changing high school graduation requirements

 

Alameda Unified School District's Board of Education will get a detailed — if not definitive — look Tuesday at how Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget for fiscal year 2012-13 could impact local schools.

Among the effects:

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— If California voters don't approve a school funding measure on the November, 2012 ballot, mid-year budget cuts could equal the cost of three weeks of instruction.

— Even if the ballot measure passes, Brown's budget does not include funding for transitional kindergarten, a statewide program scheduled to start in 2012-13. Transitional kindergarten is intended to serve students who are made ineligible for regular kindergarten as the cutoff date for eligibility shifts back from Dec. 2 to Sept. 1, over three years.

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Also Tuesday, the board will be asked to approve implementation of four "magnet and innovative programs" at a cost of $730,700 for the 2012-13 school year. 

The programs include 20th Century Learning at Bay Farm Elementary School; Math, Science and Technology with the Integration of Music at Earhart Elementary; a magnet program at Encinal High School that includes adding grades 6-8; and the Global Education Magnet School, with an arts-integrated program and world language offerings at all grade levels, at the site of Washington Elementary School. (Details about the new programs on the Alameda Unified School district website here.)

— Board members are also looking at revising graduation requirements at the district's high schools, including, as phase 1 of the revision, the elimination of the traditional senior portfolio requirement.

The board meets Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 6:30 p.m. at . 

Staff reports for Tuesday's meeting are available at the AUSD website and the agenda is here


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