Le Conte Elementary School. Photo: BUSD. New principal appointments have been made for Berkeley’s LeConte and Oxford elementary schools. Elizabeth (“Beth”) Rhine will assume the role of principal at Oxford, replacing Jen Corn, who transferred to Thousand Oaks this summer. Veronica Valerio will join LeConte as its principal after Kathryn Singh, the former principal, announced on July […]
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Citizen’s good turn prompts school district investigation
Some of the school records that were inadvertently discarded in a dumpster at Le Conte School. Photo: Alicia Abramson The discovery on Saturday of a stash of school records in a dumpster on the Le Conte Elementary School playground has prompted the Berkeley Unified School District to initiate an investigation into how school documents are […]
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Mystery of discarded school records at Le Conte School
School records found in a dumpster on the Le Conte playground on Saturday. Photos: Alicia Abramson When Alicia Abramson took her kids to play on the Le Conte playground on Saturday morning, she discovered something unusual. “I came across a few boxes of school records that the school appears to be dumping. In addition to being a […]
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A planner who favors edible, eco education — and risks
Author and green schoolyard advocate Sharon Gamson Danks. Photo: Maia and Ayden Danks. In the course of her travels researching her new book Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, Sharon Gamson Danks was struck by two things: First, the United States is a world leader in school food gardens and Berkeley is firmly […]
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Berkeley students stop everything…. to read
Wendy Cohen reads to fifth graders at LeConte Elementary School. Photos: Frances Dinkelspiel. Students in Berkeley schools dropped all their work this morning to stop… and listen to a community member read. It was all part of the district’s 18th annual DEAR day, which stands for “Drop Everything And Read.” LeConte Elementary School was eerily […]
