Jefferson Elementary School could be renamed after the first Black teacher at Berkeley Unified
Ruth Acty taught in Berkeley Unified School District for 50 years, and was a key part of efforts to integrate school staff in the early 1940s.
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UC Berkeley strips the names of professors with racist views off 3 buildings
LeConte Hall and Barrows Hall will be renamed because their former namesakes advocated white supremacy.
Laura Babitt, Ana Vasudeo win school board seats with campaigns for smart school reopening, student safety
The two candidates will take over for Judy Appel and Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, who are both retiring from the board.
January is the earliest Berkeley middle, high schoolers could return to campus
With BUSD’s phased reopening plan, middle and high schools are not likely to reopen before elementary campuses.
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ConnectEd: Innovative learning at Bishop O’Dowd High School
Bishop O’Dowd is committed to creating and nurturing an exceptional learning environment for our students as we continue remote learning this fall semester. (Sponsored)
Enrollment is down 5% at Berkeley Unified as some parents make other plans
Fed up with distance learning, a few families are finding alternative ways to educate their children.
Distance learning equity, student safety are critical issues for Berkeley School Board candidates
In a race with no incumbents, six candidates are running to fill two seats during an academic year upended by COVID-19.
UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Doudna, the first woman at Cal to win the Nobel, shares the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the genome editing breakthrough CRISPR-Cas9.
UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in physics
Genzel, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, shares the prize with UCLA’s Andrea Ghez for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
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Got learning differences? Meet remote teaching the Bayhill way
Bayhill’s expert teachers have innovated their curriculum and built new virtual experiences for their students to engage each and every one of their diverse learners. (Sponsored)
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Aurora School navigates social emotional (remote) learning
Now more than ever the small size of Aurora School remains a strength — whether it’s how we rose to the occasion of online learning or have prepared for a potential hybrid of remote and on-campus instruction. (Sponsored)
In brief
Spring classes at UC Berkeley will begin remotely in 2021, and likely continue that way
All large lectures and most classes will be remote in spring 2021, and on-campus students will self-quarantine at the beginning of the semester.
