Educators call for caseload caps at Berkeley school district meeting
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Wednesday’s Berkeley Unified School District board meeting was marked with continued controversy over educators’ pay and caseload caps.
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California budget set to raise UC system funding by 6 percent
The budget — which was introduced by Assemblymember Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, in December — will increase the UC system’s funding from about $3.35 billion to roughly $3.55 billion, according to California Legislative Information, if it is approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Berkeley school district teachers call for increased pay
District finances and programs like the Green Dot and the African-American Success Project were discussed at Wednesday’s Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board meeting, where a crowd of district teachers spoke during public comment, including several who called for payment increases.
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Full-time campus student Ashley Cunningham works 30-plus hours to pay rent
In Ashley Cunningham’s first semester at UC Berkeley, she and her long-term boyfriend split up after 7 ½ years. Despite this hard emotional time, Cunningham still worked 30-plus hours a week and stayed in school full time.
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‘Their battle is our battle’: Berkeley teachers continue support for Oakland teacher strikes
Berkeley teachers continued to stand in solidarity with their striking Oakland counterparts Tuesday morning with walk-in demonstrations at two local K-12 schools, which according to Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT, members, may precede local teachers’ pushes for similar gains.
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Show your support for Oakland teachers on strike
BAY AREA AFFAIRS: Community members should stand in solidarity with Oakland teachers’ demands to improve public education
Education is a human right — one we wouldn’t have if it weren’t for dedicated educators. So to all Bay Area residents, this is a call to action: Join Oakland teachers in their effort to save public education.
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Berkeley students must support Oakland teachers’ strike
After more than a year of contract negotiations in which the Oakland Unified School District has not met teachers’ demands, the Oakland Education Association, or OEA, announced that it would go on strike this Thursday. The OEA, which represents almost 3,000 public school teachers in the school district, supports teachers who are fighting for common good demands such as smaller class sizes, more school nurses and counselors, more funding for classroom supplies, higher wages and better work conditions for teachers. T
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Berkeley High School teachers join Oakland teachers’ strike in solidarity
News vans and organizers congregated while helicopters circled overhead early Thursday morning at Oakland Technical High School for a picketing demonstration. The demonstration kicked off Oakland’s districtwide teachers’ strike, where teachers from Berkeley High School also joined in solidarity.
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Berkeley organizations strive toward food sustainability
For the groups paving the path to a more sustainable food future in Berkeley, food sustainability is about more than just being ecologically friendly — food sustainability means ensuring food access and affordability, and the reform of food distribution structures.
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Low-achieving students less likely to apply to charter schools, UC Berkeley study finds
Christopher Walters, an assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley who conducted research on patterns of selection into Boston charter schools, said parenting and household “advantages” may contribute to high-achieving students choosing charter schools instead of district schools, more so than low-achieving students.
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