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Elementary School Enrollment Form Due Thursday, March 11 / Formulario de Inscripción para la Escuela Primaria Fecha Limite Jueves, 11 de Marzo

March 8, 2021   Dear Parents and Caregivers, We’re happy to share that based on the continuing positive dialogue with our Berkeley Federation of Teachers and Berkeley Council of Classified Employees partners, and also thanks to the successful vaccination program offered to BUSD staff by the City of Berkeley, we expect to be able to […]

Update on Returning to In-Person Learning / Actualización sobre el Regreso al Aprendizaje en Persona

March 6, 2021 Dear BUSD Community, I have several significant updates from BUSD about our progress in the last two weeks, all of which represent steady motion towards our school campus reopening across our district. Vaccination Update Thanks to the vaccination partnership with the City, we’ve been able to race through many of our teacher […]

Middle and High School Reopening Plan Updates and Surveys / Actualizaciones y Encuestas del Plan de Reapertura de las Escuelas Secundarias y Preparatorias

March 2, 2021   Dear BUSD Middle and High School Parents and Caregivers, As of this morning, we have had almost two thousand responses from the families of our middle and high school students to our survey about returning to school in April. I’m very appreciative for your participation, and everyone in BUSD is very […]

City of Berkeley and Berkeley Unified School District Announce a Vaccine Agreement Enabling a Timeline to Return to In-Person Learning

  Berkeley, CA, February 16, 2021 – The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) and City of Berkeley are thrilled to announce an agreement to provide vaccinations to all BUSD educators, which will enable the city’s public school students to return to in-person learning on a timeline announced by the District earlier tonight. Under the City’s […]

BUSD and BFT Reach Tentative Agreement and Establish Timeline for Reopening Schools / BUSD y BFT Logran un Acuerdo Tentativo y Establecen un Plazo para la Reapertura de las Escuelas

  Tuesday, February 16, 2021   Dear BUSD Community, We are very pleased to announce that the District and the Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT) this evening reached a tentative agreement that, once ratified, establishes a timeline for the reopening of all our schools, PK-12, into a hybrid model of instruction. This agreement was the […]

Sonic To Offer Free Gigabit Fiber Internet to BUSD Student Households / Sonic ofrecerá Internet de fibra óptica gratis en los hogares de estudiantes de BUSD

  Berkeley, CA, February 11, 2021 – The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), in collaboration with the Berkeley Public Schools Fund, today announced a partnership with local internet service provider Sonic to provide free high-speed fiber-optic internet access to all qualifying students for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year (through July 1, 2021). This […]

School Reopening Message and February 11 Town Hall / Mensaje Acerca de la Reapertura de las Escuelas y Reunión Town Hall el 11 de Febrero

  February 9, 2021   Dear Community, In recent days, some have asked for clarification of the District’s position with respect to school reopening.  We write to reiterate the District’s position: The District’s position is that students should return to campus and in-person learning as soon as public health officials determine that it is safe […]

Reopening Update,and Black Lives Matter at School Week Feb. 1-5 / Información Reciente acerca de la Reapertura y la Semana Escolar de Black Lives Matter (Las Vidas Negras Importan) Feb. 1-5

January 29, 2021   Dear BUSD Community, This week, more than one thousand Berkeley families listened to a Zoom discussion with Berkeley parents, members of the School Board, and me about school reopening. This candid, unscripted conversation illustrated the complexity of our shared situation as a community. As the Board and District have said many […]

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