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Elementary School Information and Resources / Información y Recursos para la Escuela Primaria

March 24, 2021   Dear Elementary School Community,  I’m writing to share some important resources and to provide an update on reopening plans. As a reminder:   Elementary Campus Reopening Monday, March 29: Grades TK-2 (all schools) will reopen for five-day, in-person learning. Monday, April 12: Grades 3-5 (all schools) will reopen in the same […]

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 […]

Statement on Targeting of the BFT President and his 2-Year-Old Child / Declaración acerca del Señalamiento hacia el Presidente de BFT y su hija de 2 Años de Edad

  March 1, 2021   Dear Berkeley Unified Community, Yesterday, I became aware that an anonymous individual in our community posted a video of the president of our teachers union taking his two-year- old daughter to her nursery school. Regrettably, this video, which invades the privacy of a family in our school community and targets […]

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 […]

Wed. Jan 27: 6pm State of the District, 7pm Reopening Conversation / Miércoles, 27 de Enero: 6pm Estado Actual del Distrito, 7pm Abriendo Nuevamente la Conversación

January 25, 2021   Dear BUSD Community, On Wednesday, January 27, I will host the annual Superintendent’s State of the District meeting for parents and guardians at this Zoom webinar link. I hope you’ll join me from 6:00 to 7:00 pm to hear updates from BUSD about: Accomplishments during the Fall of 2020 State funding […]

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