Superintendent Donald Evans enjoys visiting our classrooms whenever he can, and last Friday, April 28, found him reading about llamas to kids aged 3-5 at Franklin Preschool. His text was the picture book, Is Your Mama a Llama?, and his enthusiastic audience was Nelly Caloca’s class, the only bilingual preschool class in the district. (A […]
BUSD Elementary Students Match Their Literary Judgment Against the Adult Experts
For picking the best children’s book, who do you trust more — adult “experts” or the children themselves? Now you’ll have a chance to compare, thanks to Berkeley elementary school students who’ve enthusiastically jumped at the chance to match their critical tastes against those of the select committee of judges who pick the nation’s most […]
School Board
The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education, also called the School Board, is comprised of five elected directors (also called “members”) and two student directors, one chosen from Berkeley High, and the other Berkeley Technology Academy. The School Board represents the public’s voice in public education, providing governance over the school district. The School […]