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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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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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