Prompted by Berkeleyside’s investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against a Berkeley High teacher, Wicks is considering changes to the California Public Records Act and Education Code.
The suit argues that the Berkeley school district’s inaction reveals a pattern of protecting “predators over students.”
Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley has opened an International Track for non-French-speaking 6th-graders to achieve fluency by the end of 8th grade.
About 3,000 Berkeley 5- to 11-year-olds — 48.5% of the age group — were partially vaccinated as of Thursday.
The event was intended for families in harder-to-reach communities, but elementary parents from across Berkeley shared the event’s registration link.
At least five students have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 700 people have been identified as close contacts in connection with an outbreak associated with a Berkeley High sports team.
BUSD has avoided outbreaks and school closures this fall. The district has relatively high vaccination rates among students and staff.
If approved, Berkeley children would be able to get vaccinated as soon as next week. BUSD has three vaccine clinics planned for November.
After years of sexual misconduct complaints, the school district signed a gag order allowing Matthew Bissell to quietly resign.
Changes are coming to the district’s sexual harm reporting process, the result of mounting community pressure to better protect survivors.
A Berkeley High student gave a harrowing account of what happened when she tried to report her sexual assault in 2019, hoping to spur action.
Mardi Walters resigned as Title IX coordinator in February 2020 after trying to fix how the Berkeley school district handles sexual misconduct. Now she’s speaking publicly for the first time about why she left.
In 1990, Berkeley High became one of the first schools in the nation to require ethnic studies. With the state following suit earlier this month, BUSD plans to expand ethnic studies to all grade levels.
Community members are invited to voice their opinions in a series of town halls. Students won’t see changes until 2023.
The school district will revert to the long-standing six-period day. Future changes are still on the table.
Five Berkeley educators nominated by parents and principals for their perseverance and commitment to kids during the pandemic.
Teachers are quitting and parents are pulling their kids from a private Berkeley music school after the principal was fired in connection with a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary test involving crustacean jokes.
Last March, Genevieve Mage saw a 2003 yearbook photo of her colleague Matthew Bissell inappropriately hugging a 17-year-old student. She couldn’t let it go.
Health professionals and Berkeley Unified counselors are bracing for a new wave of students needing mental health care when full-time, in-person school returns in the fall.
David Card, a labor economist and professor of economics at UC Berkeley, has won the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
About 1,100 students will be housed in two buildings in the long-contested park.
Out-of-state UC students are having a bad year. The Legislature made plans to have the UC enroll fewer of them to make way for more in-state students. Meanwhile, tuition is going up $8,000 for future out-of-state students.
But construction won’t start until the 50 or so people living at People’s Park have been housed or offered services, chancellor says.
But state money may mitigate the need for cuts in a district that’s lost 600 students since the start of the pandemic.
Police responded to a report about a group of people involved in a fight near the school. No one was arrested or hospitalized, police said.
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Elementary students asked how they could do their part to stop climate change. A year later, their science teacher had an answer: micro-forests.
The private school offers a track for bilingual Spanish-English speakers, as well as one for English speakers to learn Spanish.
A teenager, a retired teacher, a Berkeley parent, and a School Board member banded together to make BUSD one of the first school districts in the country to commit to climate education.
The principal told parents that the students were “physically safe” but “emotionally shaken” by what had happened.
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