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Wednesday night’s emotional Berkeley Unified School District meeting marked the end of many things — the end of student director Arvin Hariri’s yearlong term, recognition of the retirement of four BUSD employees and community members, and the revocation of REALM’s charter.
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The program will begin June 17 and will take place at three schools: Berkeley Arts Magnet School at Whittier School, Washington Elementary School and Berkeley High School.
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More than 750 people from the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT, and Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, joined other California educators in Sacramento on Wednesday to lobby for charter accountability measures and to show support for greater funding for education.
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Charles Burress, public information officer, or PIO, for Berkeley Unified School District, is set to retire this summer after serving the district for nearly three years.
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About 350 teachers, students, superintendents, union leaders, workers, parents and school board presidents from Alameda County rallied and spoke with legislators in Sacramento on Wednesday, calling for more public education funding in California, according to the Alameda County Office of Education’s director of communications and public affairs Michelle Smith McDonald.
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Berkeley High School’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance club, or GSA, is organizing its fourth annual East Bay Queer Prom and has raised $3,355, surpassing its original goal of $3,000 through a GoFundMe campaign started in January.
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Eight new electric school buses will become part of the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, bus fleet at no additional cost to the district and will potentially be put into use for the upcoming 2019-20 school year.
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After a Jan. 5 traffic collision left Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board President Judy Appel and her wife Alison Bernstein in critical condition, the two are expected to make a complete or almost complete recovery, according to BUSD spokesperson Charles
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In a Jan. 18 email issued by the Berkeley Unified School District families impacted by the nationwide government shutdown were reminded of their eligibility to apply for free or reduced-price school breakfast and lunch.
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BHS’s graduation has been held at the Greek Theatre for the past 50 years, according to Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, spokesperson Charles Burress. Past graduation ceremonies have also been held at BHS’s auditorium and community theatre, as well as UC Berkeley’s men’s gymnasium.
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