Schools
What People Said in Live Blogging of the CVUSD School Board Meeting
Castro Valley residents joined the conversation in real time as Patch editor Lauren Edwards posted updates on Facebook during a school board meeting last week. Click on the PDF at right to see what people were saying.
Click on the PDF at right to see the real-time conversation that sprang up on Facebook during “live blogging” coverage of the Unified School District board meeting on Aug. 11, 2011.
You can use the "zoom" tool to enlarge the PDF even further after you click on it. To scroll down and look at pages 2 through 7, click on the tiny triangle on the bottom-right side of the box containing the PDF.
Patch editor Lauren Edwards posted updates during the meeting and fielded questions on the spot from readers who happened to be checking their Facebook page at the right time.
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The posts have been pasted here for you in chronological order, rather than “latest update on top,” so you can read from top to bottom. The first post during the meeting was at 7:06 p.m. and the last was at 8:23 p.m. However, the conversation continued even after the school board adjourned, as you will see below.
The conversation got the most heated on pages 3, 4 and 5 when the topic turned to whether it’s fair for one school to get more and better programs because parents raised money for it while a nearby school goes without.
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Continuing conversation about the possibility of a comes up on pages 6 and 7.
The reporting gets silly at the bottom of page 7. Toward the end of the meeting, board members were joking with one another.
The first topic below is the effect of the state budget on the school district’s budget, mostly depicting uncertainty ahead, though no new program cuts are expected at this moment.
The second topic below is at three elementary schools, where construction crews apparently made a much bigger mess than school maintenance staff members were expecting.
Click on the PDF at right to make it pop up large enough for easy reading. If you want to further enlarge it, use the "zoom" tool. To scroll down and see pages 2 through 7, click on the tiny triangle at the bottom-right side of the box containing the PDF.
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