Ka’Dijah Brown

Berkeley Unified School District administrators and parents discussed the development of an African American Success Project for the 2020-21 school year during the district's second Black town hall meeting Tuesday.

The Berkeley Unified School District board unanimously approved a Black Lives Matter resolution Wednesday.  

Although the Berkeley Unified School District board meeting Wednesday had a packed agenda with various items, the topic of Black Lives Matter and supporting Black families continually resurfaced throughout the evening.

Black families from Berkeley Unified School District and district administration discussed academic support and engagement for African American students Tuesday.

At the virtual Berkeley Unified School District meeting Wednesday, board members passed a series of priorities for the fall semester and a noninstructional week in June to allow for additional fall planning.

Berkeley Unified School District board members convened remotely for a special meeting March 19 and a regular meeting Wednesday to discuss changes taking place amid the COVID-19, or the new coronavirus, pandemic.

At Tuesday night’s Berkeley Unified School District’s, or BUSD’s, meeting, members discussed revising the English Learner, or EL, master plan, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget proposal and drafting a new Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP.

The Berkeley Unified School District saw a lively turnout at its regular meeting Wednesday, where it discussed Berkeley High School’s Bridge program, Thousand Oaks Elementary School, new board positions, funding and equity.

The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board meeting Wednesday marked the final meeting of the year for the school board and the last meeting for Superintendent Donald Evans and Associate Superintendent Pasquale Scuderi. Aside from these goodbyes, the majority of the meeting was spent in discussion of the district's math program.

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.