The Berkeley Unified School District has started a new search for a Superintendent after a failed attempt in 2012. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The Berkeley Unified School District has started a new search for a Superintendent after a failed attempt in 2012. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The Berkeley Unified School District board has launched a new search for a superintendent, following […]
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School board forum displays strong anti-Broad views
Candidates for the school board speak at Thursday night’s forum. Left to right: Judy Appel, Norma Harrison, Tracy Hollander, Beatriz Leyva-Cutler. Photo: Lance Knobel Candidates for the school board speak at Thursday night’s forum. Left to right: Judy Appel, Norma Harrison, Tracy Hollander, Beatriz Leyva-Cutler. Photo: Lance Knobel At the only forum planned for school […]
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BUSD board vows to be more inclusive in new chief search
The Berkeley School Board at its Wednesday night meeting. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel A seemingly chastened Berkeley school board announced Wednesday night that it will restart its search for a new superintendent in early 2013 and will be more open and inclusive in the process. Before opening the meeting to public comments, Leah Wilson read a […]
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BUSD: Potential chief had ‘too much explaining to do’
Edmond Heatley: “Too much negativity associated with him” Edmond Heatley: “Too much negativity associated with him” Now that its one finalist for the post of superintendent has withdrawn his candidacy, the Berkeley Unified School District board will probably not begin looking in earnest again for a replacement to retired superintendent Bill Huyett until late winter […]
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Lessons learned from the Edmond Heatley fiasco
Now that the search for the Superintendent of the Berkeley schools is back at square one, there will be plenty of time for members of the community to engage with the Board on the substance and process of their continued search. But the fiasco that just unfolded offers a few obvious lessons that the Board […]
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Heatley withdraws candidacy for BUSD Superintendent
Edmond Heatley Edmond Heatley has withdrawn his candidacy for the post of Berkeley Schools district Superintendent. Heatley was the only candidate in the running, after the school board let it be known on Aug. 31 that they had narrowed to field down to one. An alert released by BUSD at 8:38am today reads: In an […]
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Berkeley school board calls special meeting for Tuesday
The Berkeley Unified School District Board has announced that it will hold a special meeting tomorrow, Tuesday Sept. 18, at 8:30pm at its new offices at 2020 Bonar Street. The agenda at the closed meeting includes discussing the appointment of a new superintendent, a subject that has caused heated debate in the community over the past […]
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Questions about Heatley’s role in Prop 8 resolution swirl
Anti-Heatley campaigners at Wednesday night’s school board meeting. Photo: Tracey Taylor Anti-Heatley campaigners at Wednesday night’s school board meeting. Photo: Tracey Taylor The pending appointment of Edmond Heatley as superintendent of Berkeley schools has been vocally protested this week by parents and teachers who are concerned about his role in the passage of a resolution […]
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Should BUSD withdraw the Heatley nomination?
Anti-Heatley campaigners were vocal at last night’s school board meeting. Photo: Tracey Taylor According to information uncovered last night, Edmond Heatley, the sole finalist for superintendent of Berkeley schools, pushed a resolution supporting Proposition 8 when he was superintendent in Chino Valley in 2008. The school board announced last night that it was slowing down […]
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Superintendent candidate supported Prop 8 in Chino post
Edmond Heatley: the sole current candidate for BUSD Superintendent Edmond Heatley, the sole finalist for the vacant post of superintendent of Berkeley’s schools, wrote a memo in 2008 urging Chino Valley’s Board of Education to approve a resolution in support of Proposition 8, the measure to prohibit marriage equality in California. At the time, Heatley […]
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Heatley’s Broad Academy connections attract criticism
Edmond Heatley, the only finalist for the BUSD superintendent post The credentials of Edmond Heatley, the only finalist for the vacant Berkeley schools superintendent post, have come under fire from the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, as well as from individual teachers and parents. The BUSD board is scheduled to decide on Heatley at its meeting […]
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Likely new Berkeley school superintendent under scrutiny
Edmond Heatley, the unanimous finalist for BUSD superintendent The Berkeley school board tonight will hear a report in closed session on the site visit to Clayton County, Georgia, to assess the lone finalist for the district’s vacant superintendent post, Edmond Heatley. The board released Heatley’s name on Friday, although there is no contract yet approved. […]
