Berkeley High’s top-ranked girls basketball team took another step toward a NorCal championship last night, winning its quarterfinal against McClatchy-Sacramento 69-56. The Yellowjackets clinched the North Coast Section championship last Saturday by crushing Deer Valley 62-42.
In the semifinals BHS will play fourth-ranked Kennedy-Sacramento who beat Lowell last night, 54-39.
Update The Oakland Tribune has a good [...]
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Jackets girls continue drive to championship
Breaking: Berkeley High principal Slemp to retire
Jim Slemp, principal of Berkeley High School, said today he plans to retire at the end of this school year. The announcement was made at this morning’s public announcements at the school.
Slemp has been at the center of this year’s controversy over the future of extra time for science labs at BHS. He proposed in [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 3.9.10
Event honors high-achieving middle and high school students [Daily Cal]
UC Berkeley to use waitlists in admissions process [UC Berkeley]
Berkeley one of least safe places for cyclists and pedestrians [Daily Planet]
Berkeley hosts Empowering Women of Color conference [Oakland Tribune]
UC engineers head to Chile to document quake’s impact [UC Berkeley]
Photo: Floral gate in Berkeley by Szymek S./Berkeleyside [...]
Fundraiser honors famous alumni of Berkeley High
Quick! Which one of the following people is not an alumnus of Berkeley High?
Thornton Wilder, playwright, novelist, 3-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Ursula K. LeGuin, science fiction writer
Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer
Jack [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 3.5.10
NBC drama Parenthood’s Berkeley is “hella” inaccurate [Fancast.com]
New property taxes for Berkeley under consideration [Berkeley Voice]
Berkeley drops everything to read [Berkeley Daily Planet]
Mentor program helps close achievement gap at BHS [Coco Times]
Photo: SW from top of Panoramic by dougsmi/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
BHS soccer in semifinal tussle
If you want to haul over to Concord this evening, you’ll be able to cheer on the Berkeley High boys varsity soccer team in an NCS semifinal match against number one ranked De La Salle.
The Jackets entered the tournament as league champions and ranked fourth. They won their first round match against College Park 2-0, [...]
BHS science compromise slipping away?
Parents attending the open house at Berkeley High School last night were handed a leaflet from “concerned parents and staff” about the science/equity controversy at the school. According to the leaflet, BHS principal Jim Slemp is opposed to the compromise plan suggested by Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Bill Huyett:
Superintendent Huyett has publically [sic] stated [...]
The Berkeley Wire: 2.18.10
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 [...]
BHS science labs not just for the “privileged”
Amy Hansen is a long time science teacher at Berkeley High School. When she read Rick Ayer’s opinion piece on the science lab controversy, she felt compelled to send a letter to the school board rebutting Ayers’ charges. This is a copy of the letter.
Contrary to Mr. Ayers assertion, it is not a privilege to [...]
Are Berkeley parents like white Southern racists? Rick Ayers thinks so
Rick Ayers was a well-regarded teacher at Berkeley High for 11 years, instrumental in starting the Community Arts and Sciences (CAS) small school and helping with the school newspaper.
But since his departure, Ayers has taken to criticizing what he considers a dangerous force at Berkeley High: the Parents of Power or the Parents of Privilege, [...]
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