Local Schools

Over 100 Berkeley High School, or BHS, students walked out of class on Wednesday to show their support for Palestine in the latest Israel-Hamas war and to call for an immediate ceasefire. 

Team 5419 Berkelium is part of the FIRST Robotics Competition. The program involves a six-week build season followed by six weeks of competition, where teams from around the world compete in alliances of three to complete tasks and score points.

Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, held a meeting Thursday to review a mental health assessment conducted as a step in a four year mental health improvement plan. 

Berkeley Unified School District’s first meeting of the year was held on Wednesday, marked by continued debate over the future of the District’s 1130 Oxford Street property, formerly Oxford Elementary, closed due to its high risk in the event of an earthquake.

BUSD is suing an unnamed minor and their parents for workers’ compensation and damages following an alleged assault on one of their employees, Sara Garcia, in 2021.

After three drafts, four years, and hundreds of public comments, the California State Board of Education has passed the 2023 Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools to encourage “equity and excellence” in math learning, according to a California Department of Education press release. 

Many students attend Berkeley City College with the intention of transferring to UC Berkeley, according to BCC transfer and career coordinator Andrea Williams. While there is no guarantee that students from BCC will be admitted to UC Berkeley, the relationship with the UC Berkeley campus provides BCC students with significant benefits.

Thanks to a new agreement between Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, and the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT, teachers will be granted compensation for their time spent writing letters of recommendation.

Whether an expert searching to hone their skills, or a beginner who’s eager to learn the basics, the Berkeley Chess School, or BCS, has something in store for many individuals this summer. 

The US Department of Education recently announced it will grant $8 million to advance Native American education, language learning and schoolteachers nationwide.