Berkeley residents and students will get a chance to discuss important town-gown issues such as redistricting and sustainability when a city panel series is launched later this month. The city’s Fall Panel Series is an effort to sustain a consistent partnership between the city and the UC Berkeley campus through Read More…
Despite not fully meeting federal standards, the Berkeley Unified School District’s overall test scores are up, and students are performing better than last year, according to data from the California Department of Education. Although this year’s results showed increased participation in student testing at Berkeley High School and significantly higher Read More…
Oxford Elementary in the Berkeley Unified School District is now designated a Program Improvement school, based on state and federal testing data released today. Although Oxford Elementary met its state-measured Academic Performance Index goals, it did not meet the federal ones, called Academic Yearly Progress standards — guidelines instated as Read More…
When Josh Daniels first tried out for the baseball team as a freshman at Berkeley High School, the varsity team coach told him that the team would have a baseball field to play on by his senior year. That was in 1995. Daniels, who graduated from the high school in Read More…
After much anticipation, Berkeley Unified School District’s first and only charter school opened Tuesday, welcoming sixth and ninth grade students to its West Berkeley campus. Classes begin this week for the Revolutionary Education and Learning Movement middle and high schools, which focus on technology and hands-on learning and is the Read More…
Despite steady statewide increases in the percentage of high school students passing the California High School Exit Exam over the past six years, the percentage of students in the Berkeley Unified School District who passed the exam in the 10th grade decreased this year. According to data released Wednesday by Read More…
A Berkeley High School custodian and his family were shot in an attempted robbery Friday morning, resulting in the death of the custodian’s mother, according to a Monday newsletter sent to the high school community. Dinesh Kumar, who was shot multiple times in his Richmond home, has stabilized and is Read More…
The popular street food vending organization Off the Grid is set to open near the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street. Read More…
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the regional government agency that regulates sources of air pollution, is offering $4 million for ride sharing or shuttle services that promote decreased vehicle use. As part of its efforts to diminish local air pollution, the air district will review applications and distribute Read More…
Seven months after a People’s Park tree-sitter was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the park has once again become home to a tree-sit, this time in response to what the tree-sitter called an urgent situation for Berkeley’s homeless people. A sometimes Berkeley resident who goes by the name of Read More…
