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Berkeley residents Judy Appel, Norma J.F. Harrison and Tracy Hollander are challenging incumbent School Board Director and Clerk Beatriz Leyva-Cutler for the two seats.
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A state senator introduced an amendment to Proposition 13 Monday, urging the legislature and California voters to alter the measure to allow greater funding to local schools.
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The Berkeley Unified School District’s Board of Education announced May 31 that it would be broadening its search for the new district superintendent despite its original plans to have selected a candidate by the beginning of June. The board decided to extend the search because they were not satisfied with
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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 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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Hundreds of Berkeley High School students skipped their last class Thursday, instead deciding to hold their own rally in support of the March 1 Day of Action just hours before local teachers gathered at the same spot. Before joining the Berkeley Federation of Teachers demonstration at 4:30 p.m., high school
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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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The Berkeley Unified School District could see cuts totaling more than $3.2 million if Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax hike is not approved, based on the proposed state budget for 2012-13. At its meeting Wednesday, the district’s Board of Education discussed several scenarios for how the district — which has a
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Bill Huyett may not have started out in education, but it is very much where he has ended up. A 38-year career in public education, capped with a four-year tenure in the Berkeley Unified School District, will come to an end this spring when Huyett steps down from his position
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A recent surge in the number of Occupy Berkeley protesters camping out at the park across the street from Berkeley High School has led to concerns about the accessibility of drugs and alcohol at the park for students. Berkeley High School principal Pasquale Scuderi explained in a message to the
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