BUSD’s number-two administrator is Alameda Unified’s new superintendent.
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Berkeley High principal on sudden leave; VP in charge
Berkeley High Principal Sam Pasarow at a meeting with teachers and staff when he began at BHS in 2015. Photo: Mark Coplan Beginning Tuesday, Berkeley High Principal Sam Pasarow will be on leave, and Vice Principal Erin Schweng will oversee campus operations, according to a brief email sent to BHS families Monday evening by a school […]
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Address verification work continues for Berkeley Unified
The Bonar Street headquarters of the Berkeley Unified School District. Photo: Kaia Diringer The Berkeley Unified School District has continued its stepped-up efforts to cut down on enrollment fraud during its second year of widespread home visits and address verifications prompted by a new policy adopted by the School Board last year. Wednesday night, the board got […]
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Berkeley schools on alert after 2 abduction attempts
It has been reported that three Willard Middle School students were involved in two unsuccessful abduction attempts on the morning of Friday Sept. 18, 2015. Photo: Willard Middle School Berkeley schools, and the local school community, are on alert after reports of two separate attempted abductions Friday morning as students made their way to classes at Willard […]
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Sam Pasarow named as new Berkeley High principal
Sam Pasarow will become Berkeley High School’s principal in July. Photo: Courtesy of BUSD Sam Pasarow will become Berkeley High School’s principal in July. Photo: Courtesy of BUSD Sam Pasarow, an Oakland middle school principal, will be Berkeley High School’s new principal, starting in July, Berkeley Unified Superintendent Donald Evans announced at last night’s school board meeting. Pasarow […]
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School board votes on short-term overcrowding solutions
Students and faculty from Berkeley Adult School stand and hold signs in solidarity against relocation of the school at Wednesday’s board meeting. Photo: Seung Y. Lee Students and faculty from Berkeley Adult School stand and hold signs in solidarity against relocation of the school at Wednesday’s board meeting. Photo: Seung Y. Lee The Berkeley School Board voted […]
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New BHS principal: School district seeks community input
Berkeley High School: looking for a new principal. Photo: Lance Knobel The Berkeley school district is seeking the community’s input as it ramps up its search for a new principal for Berkeley High School. The high school is inviting parents and stakeholders to attend a meeting in the BHS Library on Tuesday Jan. 13 to share their […]
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School board reviews recess restriction as punishment
Berkeley is discussing the pros and cons of taking recess time away from kids as a form of punishment. Photo: Nick Kenrick Two years ago, Berkeley parent Sinead O’Sullivan got tired of hearing from her kindergartener that he was missing recess for misbehaving. She knew he wasn’t a saint, but she didn’t think taking exercise […]
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School Board considers options for tackling student surge
More space is needed at Berkeley schools to accommodate an estimated 250 new students in the next three years. Photo: BUSD With an extra 250 students projected to crowd into Berkeley schools in the coming three years, the school board considered a long list of options for creating space at its Nov. 5 meeting. The board […]
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BUSD superintendent: ‘We have much more work to do’
Unruly behavior at Berkeley High on Rally Day this year has prompted the district superintendent to concentrate on finding new leadership for the school. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel In response to unruly behavior on the Berkeley High campus Oct. 24, and the current absence of top leadership at the school, Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Donald Evans has asked […]
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Op-ed: Admin, students share blame for BHS Rally Day mob
I am a senior at Berkeley High School, I’ve been in school Leadership — a student government organization — for all four years, and I was present at Friday’s Rally Day mob scene. I know it got completely out of hand. It is 100% unacceptable for anyone to be physically hurt, and the firecracker that […]
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Berkeley High staffer injured, 15 students suspended, due to 500-strong student mob involving bullying, drinking
Rally Day at Berkeley High in 2012, the last one to happen after it was canceled due to what the district said was rampant drinking among students, among other things. This year, an unsanctioned rally day mob sent a staffer to the hospital with a head injury. Photo: BUSD/Mark Coplan A Berkeley High staffer was […]