What does the Alameda County Office of Education do?
The Alameda County Office of Education serves: • 18 K-12 districts; • 387 schools; • 10,000 teachers; • 213,000 students; • Children with special needs and their parents; • Incarcerated and expelled youth; and • School-age parents and their children. California has a three-tiered system of public education. Regulations, funding, and education policy are established at the state level. Each individual district’s administration and elected school board is responsible for instruction and fiscal operations. California’s 58 County Offices of Education (COE) collectively represent the intermediate level of the state’s public education system, linking state policy to individual districts. Each COE is mandated by the state’s Education Code and directives from the California Department of Education to provide certain services to districts and schools within their own county. Directives from the California Department of Education and new state and federal legislation have resulted in the rapid e
