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Berkeley residents are expected to save millions of dollars in property taxes through savings by the Berkeley Unified School District. Through refinancing, improving credit rating and gaining access to federal subsidies, the district estimates that taxpayers will save around $17.2 million over the life of bond measures passed in 2000
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A proposal for a charter school was turned down by the Berkeley Unified School District’s Board of Education this week. The board followed with the staff recommendation at its Wednesday meeting to reject the proposal for Integrity Education Center, an earlier version of which the board denied earlier this year.
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As the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education convenes for the first time this month, the board is planning on doling out an all too familiar verdict. Soumya Karlamangla is the assistant city news editor.
Following the opening of Berkeley Unified School District’s first charter schools last month, the district held a public hearing Wednesday to gather community opinions about a proposal for a new charter school. Weiru Fang covers local schools.
At its first meeting of the school year Wednesday, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education approved the final designs for Derby Field — a baseball field whose renovation has been discussed for more than 15 years. The district approved the project’s total cost of about $2.4 million, as
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Berkeley High School’s staff is starting out the school year with a renewed focus on attendance and communication, according to a letter sent out Wednesday to the high school community. Soumya Karlamangla is the assistant city news editor.
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
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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
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After voting to continue three of four 9.5-hour preschool classes for the next school year, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education decided at its meeting June 22 not to use any more of its funds to keep the last classroom open. The issue was raised at the meeting
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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
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