Retrofitting seismically unsafe portions of Historic Alameda High School could cost between $19 million and $27 million, an architect’s estimates presented at a community meeting Thursday show. Read more >> about Cost to retrofit high school buildings could top $27 million

Should Alameda Unified renovate Historic Alameda High School, repurpose or rebuild it? It’s a question they’ve posed to the public – and one other Bay Area school districts have grappled with in different ways.

Cost estimates for repairing seismically unsafe portions of the 88-year-old campus – which housed an adult school and district offices until this past year, when they were moved due to seismic safety concerns – are being discussed at a community meeting scheduled for Thursday. The estimates hadn’t yet been released Monday night. Read more >> about Bay Area districts took different routes on historic high schools

Alameda's public school students are forsaking the gray bin, putting paper and food scraps in their place. We've got a nifty infographic detailing the schools' progress over the past five years and the equivalent environmental impact, at the jump. Read more >> about Diverted: Alameda schools meeting green challenge

Alameda's four charter schools educate nearly 1,400 students. Here's the demographic 411 on the Alameda Community Learning Center, Academy of Alameda, Bay Area School of Enterprise and Nea Community Learning Center that was provided to the Board of Education on Tuesday night, at the jump. Read more >> about By the numbers: Alameda's charter schools