February 15, 2024 Dear Berkeley Unified Community,  I am happy to announce the establishment of the district’s Safety Committee.  BUSD’s Safety Committee is an advisory committee to the Superintendent that will be co-facilitated by the District’s new Safety Coordinator and Director of Student Services.  Like other district advisory committees, members of the district’s Safety Committee […]

    February 1, 2024 Dear Berkeley Unified Community, In addition to our mission to enable and inspire our diverse student body to achieve academic excellence and make positive contributions to our world, BUSD is committed to ensuring Excellence, Equity, Engagement, and Enrichment to the students that we serve. In 2020, when Black Lives Matter […]

  January 5, 2024   Dear Berkeley Unified Community, On December 6, 2023, our Board of Education voted unanimously to approve Resolution 24-017: Declaring January Disability Awareness and History Month in BUSD. January holds particular significance in Berkeley as it is the birth month of Ed Roberts, who began the disability rights movement at UC […]

  January 3, 2024 Dear Berkeley Unified Community, Berkeley Unified’s Reparations Task Force has officially launched its Community Engagement Survey. I encourage all members of our community to complete this brief survey as your voices are important to this process. Please also share the survey with your friends and neighbors so that the Reparations Task […]

    A readable PDF of this flyer can be found here. December 22, 2023   Dear Berkeley Unified Community, As we head into the winter break, we wanted to share some upcoming information and important dates with you.   The mission of Berkeley Unified School District is to enable and inspire our diverse student body […]

  December 21, 2023   Dear Berkeley Unified Community, We are nearing the end of 2023 and getting ready for our winter break.  I continue to marvel at and appreciate the many ways our community comes together to celebrate and care for one another.  Just this month we gathered for the grand opening of the […]

December 12, 2023 Dear Berkeley Unified Community, This morning BUSD and other local school districts received anonymous emails claiming that multiple explosives have been planted inside of all district schools. While this appears to be part of a hoax being experienced not only locally, but in other states as well, out of an abundance of […]

  November 29, 2023   Dear Berkeley Unified Community,  Our collective vision has come to fruition!  The Berkeley High School (BHS) Wellness Center is ready to open! The Wellness Center will expand resources available to students–including prevention and education services–complimenting services already provided at the school’s Health Center. It will be a place for students […]

November 7, 2023   Dear Berkeley Unified Community, United Against Hate Week, celebrated this year on November 12 – 18, is an opportunity to bring communities together to learn how to respond when hate happens and to have important conversations about how to work together to prevent hate and advance our collective agenda for peace […]

  November 6, 2023 Dear Berkeley Unified Community,  In the spirit of our mission to enable and inspire our diverse student body to achieve academic excellence and make positive contributions to our world, I am pleased to invite you to participate as a member of the district’s Gender Equity and Sexual Harassment  Advisory Committee (GESHAC). […]