At its February 2 meeting, the Berkeley Unified School District School Board convened to commemorate this year’s Black History Month and review future steps regarding COVID-19 policies including mask mandates, testing, and employee vaccination requirements.
On Wednesday, February 9, Superintendent Brent Stephens of Berkeley Unified School District announced that he will not extend his contract with BUSD past June 30 of 2021.
In the past few weeks, over 300 students attending Berkeley High School tested positive for COVID-19, due largely to the surge of the Omicron variant and increased rapid testing in Berkeley Unified School District.
Berkeley High students have registered for more than 1,600 AP exams this year. Despite their popularity, many private schools in the Bay Area are moving away from AP classes and exams.
Whether arriving to school by foot, bike, bus, or car, many Berkeley High School students have either been victims of traffic collisions or have witnessed near misses.
The Berkeley Unified School District School Board held its first meeting of 2022 on Wednesday, January 5. Due to the Omicron variant’s spread across the United States as well as Berkeley and its public schools, the meeting focused on how the district is handling this COVID-19 surge.
A new bell and public address system made its debut at Berkeley High School on December 6, 2021, to decidedly mixed reviews. While teacher and student sentiments about the new bell sound range from critical to positive, the system now makes it possible for classes to start and end at consistent times, and
Students at Berkeley High School are required to carry their school ID card on them at all times as of January 3, 2022. Dean of Students Claudia González sent an email to all BHS students, informing them of the new ID requirements on December 14, 2021.
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.
On November 17, the Berkeley Unified School District School Board discussed potential budget cuts for the 2022-23 school year. Things have begun to return to normal for BUSD schools.
With Berkeley High School sports such as water polo or soccer at the forefront of students’ minds, it is often easy to forget that there is a rich multitude of other sports at the school.
After nearly a semester at school, the challenges that arose from the shift to in-person learning continue to impact teachers, who have had to adapt to offline instruction in a time of great uncertainty.
Every two weeks, on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, tables on the sidewalk at the intersection of Bancroft Way and Martin Luther King Jr. Way are covered in fresh produce, ready to eat meals, and dry goods.
The Berkeley Unified School District School Board discussed the newly-implemented Coaching Boys into Men program, the Title IX office, and the Climate Literacy Resolution during their November 3 meeting. The meeting’s public comment section was filled with students, parents, teachers, and Berkeley community members voicing their support for the Climate Literacy Resolution, which passed
Rugby, a sport strangely unfamiliar to so many Americans — considering our love for its athletic cousin-of-sorts, football — still has its own place in the pantheon of Berkeley High School clubs.
Zakarya Diouf, a pioneer of West African dance in the Bay Area and beloved teacher at Berkeley High School, passed away recently. Diouf was an influential member of the community, and as a drummer and teacher in the Afro-Haitian classes of the African American Studies Department, he helped shape it into the revered
Accessibility for differently-abled students at Berkeley High School has long persisted as a problem. The Special Education Department is a team of teachers dedicated to aiding these students. Angela Bau, a vision-impairment specialist, said, “Berkeley Unified is known for full inclusion and having all classes accessible to all students.” She also explained that
Berkeley High School students demanded consent education during their walkouts in February 2020. Now, over a year later, the school has followed through with several school-wide assemblies. Dean of Students Claudia Gonzalez, along with BHS’s Sexual Harm Advisory Committee, helped organize the assemblies and hired sexual educator Shafia Zaloom to run them.
