Notes on our city
Hundreds of teachers, secretaries, instructional aides, parents and students gathered along a stretch of Martin Luther King this afternoon to protest funding cuts for public education.
The protestors lined the sidewalk in front of the Berkeley Unified School District building and held up signs saying “Save Our Schools,” “Support Public Education,” and “Honk for Teachers.” Many [...]
Saturday February 27 marked the year anniversary of the death of 5-year old Zachary Michael Cruz. His family and friends have kept the stop sign at Warring and Derby — the site of his death — continuously decorated. This weekend pots of yellow tulips and other spring flowers surrounded a picture of Zachary. Three sheets [...]
The Berkeley Teen Center, which broke ground earlier this month on the corner of Center and MLK, has been nominated as a possible candidate to win a $250,000 Pepsi Challenge Grant.
The Berkeley-Albany YMCA center will provide programs and services in support of academic achievement, youth employment and career planning and leadership development for all teens, including those considered [...]
Above: California’s first high-school mountain bike team on how it’s done
Berkeley Opera’s new artistic director is up and running — in El Cerrito [Coco Times]
Summer camps: an embarrassment of riches [UC Berkeley]
Berkeley born and raised: Gina Welch’s first book on Oprah’s top 10 [Oprah]
New works on tap for Berkeley Symphony [Chronicle]
Get your hands bloody with a butchery [...]
A new YMCA center for teenagers, which is receiving financial support from PG&E, will break ground today at 4:00pm at 2111 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. The event is open to the public and will feature remarks from Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, among others.
The center, which was designed with the help of a taskforce of [...]
Who will be cooking up delicious dinners for us ten or twenty years from now? Maybe some of the graduates of Sprouts Cooking Club, an organization which collaborates with top local chefs to train the next generation of chefs in Berkeley and beyond.
Sprouts is the brainchild of Karen Rogers, 32 23, who, when she arrived [...]
When the Winter Olympics start in Vancouver in mid-February, a Berkeley High School freshman will attend –because of her writing ability, not her athletic prowess.
Jalena Kaene-Lee was one of ten winners of a contest sponsored by the McDonald’s Corporation to send kids to the Olympics and have them write dispatches for their hometown. Kaene-Lee, 14, [...]
In case you missed it, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature story yesterday on the ongoing science lab debate at Berkeley High School.
It kicks off with this context information:
In the last school year, 82% of Berkeley’s AP chemistry students passed the rigorous exam, which gives college credit for high school work. The national passing [...]
As predicted, Caitlin Flanagan’s Atlantic article in which she slammed the concept of edible schoolyards as espoused by Alice Waters — and Flanagan grew up in Berkeley it turns out… the traitor! — has triggered a raft of rebuttals. Probably most amusing is the one written by Andrew Leonard in Salon yesterday:
What a nightmare! Public school Latino [...]
It caused shockwaves yesterday in the Twittersphere — Honey the goat who lives at Tilden Little Farm (above) had been stolen.
As the Berkeley Voice reported yesterday, the 16-year-old Swiss Alpine milking goat was nabbed from her pen in the Berkeley hills Thursday night.
“I hope that whoever took her had good intentions and brought her to [...]
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