Berkeley High School teacher Dirk Wright is starting an after-school, semester-long skateboard workshop to motivate underrepresented students in engineering, robotics, carpentry, and design classes to try a lower-stakes Career Technical Education class. The workshop is made to encourage students who have never tried CTE classes or who are marginalized in these programs to
Berkeley High School clubs had the opportunity to advertise themselves to the student body at the annual BHS Club Fair during lunch on Wednesday, September 8 through Friday, September 10. In previous years, the Club Fair was held during class time, and teachers had to opt into taking their entire class to the fair.
Low pay, COVID-19 risk, licensing barriers, and the difficulty of the substitute teaching job all mean that fewer and fewer people are applying for substitute positions.
Winning more than 60 percent of the vote, Newsom defeated politicians such as former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, conservative radio host Larry Elder, and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner.
On September 8, the Berkeley Unified School District School Board approved the 2021-22 budget, which includes a $2.3 million transfer from Fund 20 — a fund used for post-employment benefits for employees — to the Unrestricted General Fund, as well as the use of eight hundred thousand dollars of remaining COVID-19 funds. According to
Students from Berkeley High School, as well as other Bay Area schools, participated in a climate strike on Friday, August 27. The strike protested Pipeline 3, California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s support of the fossil fuel industry, and the lack of action regarding unsafe conditions around the Hunters’ Point Naval Shipyard in San
The Food and Drug Administration fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for individuals over 16 years old on August 23. Previously, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, along with the Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines, had only been available under emergency use authorization, a categorization used by the FDA to make drugs and other medical products
Story last updated September 9th. See the chart above for the latest data. In the four weeks of Berkeley High School’s full return to in-person learning, 13.5 COVID-19 cases have been reported and confirmed.
On August 25, the Berkeley Unified School District School Board discussed the state of in-person school, a vaccine mandate for student athletes, and the importance of hiring a staff member to oversee COVID-19 protocols.
Former Berkeley High School student Liam Burgmann was charged this week for “revenge porn,” according to a Berkeley Police Department press release. BHS officials reportedly notified the School Resource Officer on May 10 that “several female students had their social media accounts hacked to search for and access personal nude photographs.”
Orientation week kicked off the school year, providing make-up tours for sophomores who didn’t have an in-person freshman orientation due to the pandemic, and offering an in-person welcome to the new Berkeley High School freshmen.
Berkeley Unified School District and the City of Berkeley held a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at City Hall during the last week of summer break. The clinic, located across from Berkeley High School, was run with healthcare provider Carbon Health, and took place every weekday of last week. BUSD Public Information Officer Trish McDermott
Berkeley High School students returned Monday to full time in-person school for the first time since March 2020. With in-person school now mandatory, students, staff, and teachers are feeling a variety of emotions. “Our teachers miss you, a lot, they
Berkeley High School alumni Aidan Price, class of 2019, Kerry Reid, class of 2020, and Eli Kane, class of 2019, passed away this summer. Aidan Price Price died on June 20, Reid on June 25, and Kane on July 15.
The Berkeley High School community was left reeling after alumni Dixie Lewis and Ross Schultz were killed last Tuesday in a car accident in Truckee, California.
Hungary: The strength of Hungary’s democratic institutions has continued to backslide over the past few months, with the COVID-19 pandemic allowing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban to tighten his grip on the country.
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., an American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, and pioneering researcher in CRISPR gene editing, gave a lecture with the Berkeley High School Physics Club on April 28.
The Jacket spoke with Doctor Lisa Hernandez, Berkeley public health officer, about concerns people may have about getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
