Meatless Mondays at Berkeley High School

Berkeley High School has countless different clubs, and one that has steadily gained recent attention since the beginning of the school year is the Meatless Monday Campaign.

Black Public Officials: Taplin, Brown, and Babitt Pursue Equity

Ka’Dijah Brown attended Berkeley schools all her life. She began at Washington Elementary, moved on to Longfellow Middle School, and finally graduated from Berkeley High School in 2009.

BHS Prepares for Potential Budget Cuts Next School Year

Berkeley Unified School District submitted a preliminary non-binding list of 6.6 million dollars in budget cuts for the 2022-23 school year to The Alameda County Office of Education.

BUSD Teachers Weigh in On Challenges of Grading System

With finals fast approaching and the first semester coming to a close, Berkeley High School students are feeling the stress, especially with regards to their grades.  Other school districts have considered changing their grading systems, such as Oakland Unified School District, which has been considering removing the D grade.

BUSD Briefly Halts Bus Service After COVID-19 Outbreak

School buses for Berkeley Unified School District elementary schools were out of service from Monday, October 18 to Thursday, October 21, due to bus drivers being exposed to COVID-19.  Roughly one third of elementary school students take the bus, according to the BUSD website, with that number standing at 1,400 out of the 4,040

Vaping Proves Common for BHS Teens

Over the past decade, the use of vapes has increased dramatically across the United States. Vaping was introduced to many teenagers with the popularization of the JUUL, which was first put on the market in 2015.

Students Step Up to Get COVID-19 Testing

On August 28, Berkeley High School announced to the community that they had gotten a sufficient number of kits to test staff and a small subset of students.