Photo: Courtesy of Abdur Sikder Name: Abdur Sikder Age: 48 Job: Scientist/entrepreneur What office are you are running for? Berkeley School Board What is the main reason you are running? I want Berkeley School District to be a place where all children have an equal opportunity to have high quality education, all students are taught to enjoy learning not […]
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Election 2016: Who is Judy Appel?
Berkeley School Board candidate Judy Appel. Photo: Courtesy of Judy Appel Name: Judy Appel Age: 51 Job: Executive director, California School-Based Health Alliance What office are you are running for? School Board Director What is the main reason you are running? Every child deserves the opportunity to be seen, valued and challenged at school. This is the kind of […]
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Felarca supporters shut down School Board meeting
Yvette Felarca during Wednesday night’s board meeting. Image: BUSD Yvette Felarca during Wednesday night’s board meeting. Image: BUSD A roomful of supporters of Berkeley teacher Yvette Felarca — who was placed on paid leave by the district last month — demanded during Wednesday night’s School Board meeting that she be returned to her classroom immediately and taken off […]
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Students improve in literacy, lose ground in math
The district is working on a plan to renovate its performance spaces at Berkeley High, including the Community Theater, pictured here. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley students are showing gains in college preparedness and literacy, but math test scores are down, especially for black students, according to data presented Wednesday night to the Berkeley School Board […]
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After initial stumble, police and schools aim to team up
Representatives from BUSD and the School Board — Superintendent Donald Evans, Susan Craig and Ty Alper — ask the community for feedback about its policy related to sharing information with police. Photo: Emilie Raguso Representatives from BUSD and the School Board — Superintendent Donald Evans, Susan Craig and Ty Alper — ask the community for feedback about […]
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Berkeley School Board primer: Thousand Oaks Spanish program in jeopardy, recess restriction report, more
The BUSD School Board in December 2015. Photo: Mark Coplan/BUSD The Berkeley schools Board of Education meets Wednesday, March 23. On the agenda: the possible elimination of the Thousand Oaks Spanish immersion program; a $1.9 million class-size reduction budget shortfall; the district’s first report on recess restriction; a major telephone system update; revisions to the district’s facility naming policy; […]
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City Council moves temporarily to school board building
Starting March 15, the City Council will meet in the Berkeley Unified School District board room at 1231 Addison St. Photo: Google Streetview The Berkeley City Council is packing up and moving its meetings. Tonight will be one of the last times that council convenes at Old City Hall, at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. […]
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Berkeley School Board to consider new elementary campus; BSEP tax measure meetings kick off Thursday
The BUSD School Board, seen here in December, meets tonight, Feb. 24. Photo: Mark Coplan/BUSD Berkeley could get a new elementary school in 2018 to help reduce and even out school population sizes around the district, as well as other possible benefits, according to a staff report prepared for the Feb. 24 School Board meeting. School […]
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Berkeley School Board rejects school officer grant
The Berkeley Unified School District has one school resource officer. Photo: Emilie Raguso The Berkeley School Board said a resounding “no” to a proposal to add a second police officer to its campus roster during a discussion earlier this month about ways to address safety and racial tension on campus. The proposal, from Superintendent Donald Evans, […]
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Berkeley School Board primer: Campus racism, Thousand Oaks portables, help for ‘high-need’ students
BUSD held a town hall in December about how to address racism on campus. Photo: Mark Coplan/BUSD The Berkeley schools Board of Education meets tonight, Jan. 13. On the agenda: The superintendent will share his plan to address racism on campus, the board may vote to call off plans for portables at Thousand Oaks, and there will be […]
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Berkeley School Board gets annual bullying report
BHS Stop Harassing has been working to raise awareness about discrimination at Berkeley High over the past year (file photo). Photo: BHS Stop Harassing There were 165 complaints of bullying, sexual harassment and other types of harassment were reported in Berkeley schools in the 2014-15 school year, according to a report set to go before the School Board […]
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Berkeley School Board to get student residency update
There are about 300 students at Berkeley High who live outside the city but have received permits to attend BHS. Photo: Mark Coplan/BUSD After approving a new admissions and enrollment policy in June aimed to curtail the illegal enrollment of out-of-district students, the Berkeley School Board is set to receive a report at tonight’s meeting that […]