Bill Huyett may not have started out in education, but it is very much where he has ended up. A 38-year career in public education, capped with a four-year tenure in the Berkeley Unified School District, will come to an end this spring when Huyett steps down from his position Read More…
As the search continues for a permanent replacement, two Berkeley Unified School District administrators may soon be hired to temporarily fill the open position of district superintendent.
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Berkeley residents Judy Appel, Norma J.F. Harrison and Tracy Hollander are challenging incumbent School Board Director and Clerk Beatriz Leyva-Cutler for the two seats. Read More…
After six separate gun incidents at Berkeley high schools since Jan. 10, the Berkeley Unified School District’s Ad Hoc Safety Committee has been instructed by the district’s Board of Education to create an action plan for the committee’s gun prevention recommendations on Berkeley high school campuses. At Wednesday night’s school Read More…
Following the Berkeley Unified School District’s proposal to eliminate extended day care programs to offset budget cuts to preschool funding, concerns from low-income families who rely on the programs to watch their children prompted further discussion between city and school officials. At the school district’s June 8 Board of Education Read More…
In response to recent funding reductions, the Berkeley Adult School will increase class fees for the fall semester — an issue that has raised concerns regarding the future well-being of senior citizens and adults with disabilities. For the fall semester, additional costs will be placed on what had been free Read More…
The Berkeley Unified School District was ranked among the worst in California for serving African American, Hispanic and low-income students, according to a recent study by Education Trust-West, an advocacy group based in Oakland. The study, released April 27, gathered Academic Performance Index scores of students from 146 California school Read More…
Although nearly all of the Berkeley Unified School District’s plans to close the district’s racial achievement gap by 2020 are under way, measuring the progress so far remains difficult, since the programs are still in their early stages. The plan, called 2020 Vision, is composed of 87 action steps that Read More…
The abrupt shutdown of Berkeley High School’s gymnasium last week, which forced the few students still using the structure to relocate, has also raised questions about the vulnerability of school structures in the city. Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Bill Huyett’s decision this month to close the gym — already Read More…
As many as 387 students in the Berkeley Unified School District may be unable to attend school starting Thursday as the 30-day grace period for seventh- through 12th-grade students to get their whooping cough vaccination comes to a close. Schools in the district continue to urge students to arm themselves against Read More…
