The teachers 

union and the Pleasanton school districts failed to

come to an agreement on a contract for the 1985–86 school year.
[46]
 In protest of a breakdown in negotiations, Amador Valley
teachers went on a rolling strike in 1986.[47] The school brought
in substitutes to replace the picketing teachers.[48] After over a
week of walkouts and negotiation including a state mediator, the
teachers went back to work having won immediate 8 percent pay
raises.[49] Amador Valley teachers are unionized under the
Association of Pleasanton Teachers, California Teachers
Association, and National Education Association.[50] As of the
2021–22 school year, the average teacher salary is $88,971,
which is 3% more than the average California teacher salary of
$86,376.[51]

The library and media center, opened in 2002, [52] is the tallest building on
the Amador Valley campus.[53]
The city passed a general obligation bond, Measure B, in 1997.
The bond granted the school district $69 million to replace old and
crowded facilities and modernize the school campus.[53] The
measure enabled the addition of renovated science classrooms, a
multipurpose room, a library and media center, and a sound-
proofed music building. The parking lot and central quad were
expanded, with more than 550 parking spaces in the new lot, and
classrooms were equipped to be more energy efficient. A new
two-story building was completed in 2004, containing twenty-four
classrooms. The following year, the school aquatic center was
remodeled.[54][55]
City voters passed another general obligation bond, Measure I1,
in 2016. This was the district's first bond passed since Measure B
in 1997. The bond granted $270 million to the school district to
repair and improve district facilities, as well as provide new
science equipment and learning technology. As a part of these
renovations, the school district constructed a two-story
instructional building on the Amador Valley campus, including
"five standard classrooms, three science classrooms, two
computer science labs, and two rooms specifically for special day
class students". Construction commenced in 2020 and concluded
in 2022, at a total cost of $18,400,000.[56][57][58]
The passage of Prop 39 funded the 2019 addition of solar panels
to the student parking lot. The cost of $650,000 is projected to
save about $1.8 million in electricity costs over 25 years. The
solar panels provide renewable electricity to the high school and
create covered parking in a re-oriented lot.[59]
Court cases
Further information: Amador Valley Joint Union High School
District v. State Board of Equalization and Lassonde v.
Pleasanton Unified School District
The AVJUHSD challenged the constitutionality of the
1978 California Proposition 13, which placed a cap state-wide on
county real estate taxes. The proposition limited property tax
assessments to the 1975 standard, eliminating $7 billion of
$11.4 billion in annual property tax revenue to the state.
According to The Washington Post, the "severe" limitations this
imposed on state funding forced local governments and most
school districts in California to make "drastic cutbacks".[60] A 1978
article in the Los Angeles Times predicted that the proposition
would jeopardize the state's ability to receive about $98 million
of Federal Impact Aid each year since the state could not
maintain prior levels of spending.[61]