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BUSD Performing Arts Showcase 2012 Videos On-line

BUSD Performing Arts Showcase 2012 Mixed Chorus & Longfellow Modern Band

BUSD Performing Arts Showcase 2012 featured student musicians from Berkeley’s elementary, middle and high schools. The District music program is funded by the Berkeley Schools Excellence Program (BSEP) Measure A [...]

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BUSD Board Needs Surplus Facilities Committee Applicants

Gilman Street property in question is the landscaped space and two houses to the right.

The BUSD Board of Education is seeking qualified candidates for a Surplus Facilities Committee.

Gilman Street property in question is the landscaped space and two unoccupied houses to the [...]

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Standardized Testing Period to Begin

Berkeley Public School students in grades 2-11, along with other public school students throughout California, will take part in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program this spring. The tests [...]

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LeConte Teacher Named ASCD Outstanding Young Educator

Ten years ago, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) created the Outstanding Young Educator Award (OYEA) Program to recognize creative and committed teachers and administrators under the [...]

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Report from Two Way Immersion Task Force Goes to Board April 11th

The Report from BUSD’s Two Way Immersion Task Force to Consolidate (TWI) at One Site will come to the School Board on
Wednesday April 11th for information.

See the  BUSD-Two-Way-Immersion-Task-Force-Report-and-Recommendations-2012 in English and Spanish:

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Winners of the 2012 BUSD Cesar Chávez Commemoration Essay Contest announced

Congratulations to all of the students who submitted entries and teachers who encouraged students to participate in the Cesar Chávez Commemoration Contest. Fifty-six essays and poems from Cragmont, LeConte, Rosa [...]

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Superintendent’s Budget Letter to Community

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Dear Berkeley Schools Community Members,

For yet another year I am writing to you about significant cuts to Berkeley Unified and all California public schools.  The [...]

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Willard Metal Shop Theater’s Original Production – Falling Out

A student-centered drama program at Willard, advised by George Rose has shown once again that they can do anything. Not only a well written, directed and performed “dramedy”; “Falling Out” [...]

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Ten BHS Scholars to Cal; Students Admitted to Top Universities

The UC Berkeley Cal Scholars program has announced that ten Berkeley High African American seniors in the program have been admitted to Cal, Harvard, Yale and other universities.

Cal Scholars begin [...]

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Budget Forum – State of BUSD Budget: Proposed Budget Reductions

BUSD Superintendent Bill Huyett and Deputy Superintendent Javetta Cleveland will conduct a budget forum for anyone who wants to understand the school budget process, and more specifically how it has [...]

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