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While many students may not stay in Berkeley after graduation, we implore students to go to the polls in a week to ensure a better Berkeley for themselves and future residents.
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As school commenced for students across the Berkeley Unified School District last week, the district entered its fourth week of implementing a new policy aimed at protecting the rights of gender nonconforming students.
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Newly released Berkeley Unified School District statistics reveal slight to moderate improvement in closing the district-wide achievement gap, though not all of the yearly target goals have been met.
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The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education announced their decision to slow down the process of hiring a new district superintendent, in light of community criticism.
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In an online letter addressed to the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education, a local teacher urged the board not to go through with their likely plan of hiring Dr. Edmond Heatley as the district’s new superintendent.
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The Berkeley Unified School District will begin interviewing applicants this week for the superintendent position that will be vacated by current District Superintendent Bill Huyett when he retires in June. At a special closed session meeting on May 2, the district’s Board of Education selected between seven and 10 of the
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Last week, 48 teachers in the Berkeley Unified School District received pink slips, signifying that another wave of staff layoffs could be on its way in the upcoming months. In light of the cuts to public education in Gov. Jerry Brown’s preliminary budget released in January for the upcoming fiscal
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With its ornamental tower and spacious steps, Old City Hall has long held an impressive presence in the heart of Berkeley at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Despite the building’s humble grandeur, a plaque left of the entrance reminds visitors that “this building does not meet structural standards for
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With Berkeley Unified School District facing a reduction of nearly $7 million if Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike is not approved, the district’s Board of Education will discuss a proposed budget cut plan for the 2012-13 school year at its meeting Wednesday night. The proposal on Wednesday’s agenda assumes that
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The financial future of Berkeley’s public preschool and child care programs have been thrown into flux now that Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget for the upcoming school year has been released. Though the state’s proposed cuts presented in January will not be finalized until the budget revision in May, the
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