If you’re keeping up with the running debate about changing the schedule at Berkeley High School, you’ll want to read all 11 pages of the latest action plan, submitted by teacher team leaders and principal Jim Slemp. The action plan allows each of the small schools and programs to determine their own schedules to some […]
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10 years later: How 2 Berkeley High reporters broke sex-ring scandal
Greenwell and Montauk (Examiner photo by Chris Hardy) Ten years ago, two young Berkeley High School reporters started to investigate the death of a young Indian immigrant woman. Carbon monoxide had killed Seetha Vemireddy while she slept in her Berkeley apartment, and her sister had been seriously sickened. The original incident received some cursory notice […]
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Next steps in the BHS schedule redesign
Photo/Jeremy Franklin Last week, Berkeley High’s School Governance Council rejected a controversial schedule change. If you thought that was the end of the matter, you might be wrong. The SGC has a special four-hour meeting planned for December 3 to try and craft a new proposal that will be acceptable to the majority. BHS principal […]
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The tale of two Berkeley High basketball coaches
The Berkeley High Jacket has the tale of two basketball coaches this week. The first is a story about Damion McNeil, who took over as the boys’ varsity coach just a few months after the team was banned from entering any playoff games for the next two years. The suspension was issued in May, after […]
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Schedule change at BHS fails
The controversial proposal to move Berkeley High School to a trimester schedule was stopped at the School Governance Council last night. The scheme failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority at the SGC before proceeding to the Berkeley Unified School District Board. According to an email to parents from Mark van Krieken of the BHS […]
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Should BHS’s schedule be changed?
Photo/Jeremy Franklin The long-running debate over scheduling changes at Berkeley High School is nearing its denouement. Changes are being proposed as a way to tackle the so-called achievement gap, where too many students are underachieving in high school. At the core of the proposed changes is a required advisory period, so students can have, in […]
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Lots of Spirit at Berkeley High Rally
The hallways, courtyards, and football field at Berkeley High were covered in a sea of red and gold Friday as thousands of students dressed up to celebrate Rally Day. Teenagers painted their faces and chests red and gold, topped their heads with colored pom poms, and donned a lot of gold lame to declare their […]
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The double meaning of Spirit Day at BHS
It’s Rally Day today at Berkeley High School. My freshman son has enjoyed his first Spirit Week at BHS, as he has enjoyed most of his BHS experience so far. But Spirit Week seems to have a different meaning for some students. Here’s the gist of a thoughtful email BHS parents and guardians received from […]
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Berkeley High Jacket now online
Photo by Simone Obidahday, Jacket staff The Berkeley High School Jacket has long been recognized as one of the best high school newspapers in the country. That reputation comes in part from the story it broke 9 years ago about how Berkeley landlord Lackireddy Bali Reddy was importing girls from India to work as sex […]
