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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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BUSD board members continued talks surrounding the future of REALM Charter School and the district’s sustainability efforts at their meeting on Wednesday.
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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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During the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board meeting where the board was scheduled to finalize $2 million budget cuts for the 2019-20 school year, hundreds of teachers, classified staff and community members filled the room to support raising staff wages.
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The planned merger of Berkeley’s REALM Charter School with a larger charter school organization, which was first reported by Berkeleyside, could jeopardize the school’s current agreement with the union, Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT.
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The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, came under fire last year from community members and eventually the California Department of Education, or CDE, for failing to properly handle a Title IX violation in a district elementary school, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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While the Board intends to decide upon its final budget at the next meeting on March 13, it tentatively approved changing the funding source of two Berkeley High School counselors, meaning these positioned will potentially be funded for only one additional year.
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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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The board’s second meeting of 2019 started off with a celebratory presentation of a Socratic seminar by a group of eighth graders from Willard Middle School but was soon followed by a more serious public comment session that brought many in the audience to their feet in silent support.
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At the meeting, the board officialized new positions, instituting Judy Appel as the board president, Beatriz Leyva-Cutler as vice president and Ty Alper as the clerk. The board also heard an update on the 2020 vision for Berkeley’s youth and approved the first interim budget for 2019.
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