Berkeley Unified School District

Berkeley Schools’ Antisemitism: Superintendent Testifying to Congress Wednesday Morning

May 7, 2024 3:48 pmMay 7, 2024 3:48 pm

“Kill Jews.” That was scrawled on a Berkeley High School wall recently, prompting the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) to do, well, nothing. It appears the antisemitism problem in BUSD has only grown since February, when the Louis D. Brandeis...

Hating Jews in Elementary School: Berkeley Public Schools Tolerating Antisemitism

May 6, 2024 11:50 amMay 7, 2024 9:29 am

The focus of much of the recent explosion of antisemitism across the nation has seemed to be the college campus. But in Berkeley, it appears to start in elementary school with Palestinian flags in second grade classrooms and kids –...

Planned Berkeley School Shooting Halted By Police and School Authorities

June 2, 2022 4:02 pmJune 2, 2022 4:04 pm

Less than two weeks after mass shooting incidents at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY and a school in Uvalde, TX, another major mass shooting was thwarted in Berkeley earlier this week, preventing an unknown number of injuries and deaths....

Berkeley Unified School District Bring Back Mask Mandate For Rest of Year

May 23, 2022 4:52 pmMay 23, 2022 4:56 pm

The Berkeley Unified School District brought back indoor mask mandates for students, teachers, and staff on Monday with only two weeks left in the school year due to a rising number of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area. At the...

Bill To Require COVID-19 Testing Plans for All K-12 Schools Reaches Senate Discussion

February 23, 2022 4:20 pm

A bill to require all K-12 schools in the state to come up with COVID-19 testing plans for all students and staff began discussion in the Senate on Tuesday. Senate Bill 1479, authored by Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), would be...