December 9, 2020 Newly Elected Alum Rock School Trustee Abruptly Resigns Before Taking His Oath of Office By Jennifer Wadsworth On Dec. 4, just a day after officials certified results from last month’s election, Scott Pham submitted his letter of resignation. Read More 5
October 9, 2019 ARUSD Cancels Classes Because of PG&E’s Impending Blackouts By Silicon Valley Newsroom School’s out for at least 12,000 East Side students because of the energy outages scheduled to hit the South Bay at noon today. Read More 2
August 22, 2019 FPPC Fines Alum Rock Trustee Dolores Marquez-Frausto $7K By Jennifer Wadsworth California’s Fair Political Practices Commission accused the longtime schools trustee of some pretty flagrant violations of state election law. Read More 8
May 27, 2019 Audit: Alum Rock School District Broke State Law, Local Policy By Jennifer Wadsworth The East Side school district hammered for years by investigations and claims of corruption took yet another hit in the latest state audit. Read More 17
September 12, 2018 Judge Upholds Restraining Order Against Alum Rock Union School Board Trustee Khanh Tran By The Fly An Alum Rock school trustee’s comments about kicking ass and lining folks up in front of a firing squad got him banned from the dais. Read More 3
September 6, 2018 Alum Rock School Board President Dismisses Pleas to Censure Unruly Colleague By Jennifer Wadsworth Board president Esau Herrera expressed no interest in censuring a fellow trustee, Khanh Tran, for verbally threatening the superintendent. Read More 5
August 22, 2018 Alum Rock Trustee Hit With Restraining Order for Verbally Attacking Superintendent By Jennifer Wadsworth ARUSD Superintendent Hilaria Bauer filed a stay-away order against a trustee who threatened violence against her at an Aug. 9 meeting. Read More 17
May 30, 2018 Alum Rock Schools Chief Spared the Axe; Trustees Partially Cut Ties With Shady Contractor By Jennifer Wadsworth Reform advocates in Alum Rock Union Elementary School District celebrated some major victories Tuesday. Read More 2
March 6, 2018 District-Wide Walkout Planned to Protest Alum Rock School Board By Jennifer Wadsworth Parents frustrated by the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District’s dysfunctional leadership are planning a walkout later this week. Read More 1
September 1, 2017 Alum Rock Union School District Ousts Fiery Board President By Jennifer Wadsworth The Alum Rock Union School District gave incendiary board president Khanh Tran the boot only to appoint a like-minded successor. Read More 2