February 19, 2020 Frustrated Parents Escalate Calls for Term Limits in SJ’s Embattled Alum Rock Union School District By Jennifer Wadsworth Yet their campaign has been met with resistance while two trustees apparently flipped on the issue, angering proponents of a two-term cap. Read More 3
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
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
June 27, 2018 Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury: Alum Rock School District’s Board Majority Should Resign By The Fly Yet another report came out that puts the troubled Alum Rock Union Elementary School District in a bad light. Read More 15
May 27, 2018 South Bay Lawmakers Request State Audit of Embattled Alum Rock Union School District By Jennifer Wadsworth State lawmakers are pushing for an audit to investigate claims of fraud and self-dealing at the embattled Alum Rock Union School District. Read More 3
May 16, 2018 Did Alum Rock Board President Esau Herrera Play Hooky to Attend a Luis Miguel Concert? By The Fly Alum Rock Union board president Esau Herrera reportedly skipped an important meeting last week to watch the Mexican pop sensation. Read More 8
April 12, 2018 Out + Smart in Silicon Valley: The New Faces of Gay Politics as the Breakthrough Generation Retires By Tori Truscheit Will quiet bias keep LGBTQ candidates out of office, or has shifting consciousness made the South Bay a safe place to run a gay campaign? Read More 18
December 28, 2017 2017 Year in Review: A Record-Setting Year We’d Like to Forget By Silicon Valley Newsroom And we thought 2016 was bad. The last 12 months have been record setting in all the wrong ways. Take a quick look back and then move on. Read More 13
September 7, 2017 Alum Rock School Board Trustee Andrés Quintero Accuses Colleague Khanh Tran of Slander By Jennifer Wadsworth Alum Rock Union School District trustee Khanh Tran’s war of words has prompted his colleague Andrés Qunitero to threaten legal action. Read More 6
September 6, 2017 Alum Rock Trustee Khanh Tran Goes to War with Everyone (Except George Shirakawa Jr.) By Jennifer Wadsworth The Alum Rock Union trustee’s insistence that he’s in the right led to his ouster as board president, but he’s not backing down. Read More 7
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
July 12, 2017 Alum Rock School District in Disarray; Board President Touts Endorsement from Shirakawa By The Fly Khanh Tran, president of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District board, has hitched his wagon to an unusual political ally. Read More 6