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‘Today seems like a day to hug our kids a little harder’
Berkeley High Principal wrote to the school’s community today Berkeley High’s Principal, Pasquale Scuderi, this afternoon sent an emailed letter to the BHS community in the wake of the tragedy that...
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After Newtown: Lockdown drill Wednesday, vigil Thursday
Berkeley High School will have an emergency drill Wednesday afternoon. Thursday, a vigil and discussion about the Connecticut school shooting has been planned for a North Berkeley church. Photo: Lance...
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Berkeley High lockdown follows robbery attempt
Scuderi: playing “safe and conservative” [Editor's Note: This story has been updated throughout the day. Scroll down for updates.] Berkeley High went on a precautionary lockdown at around 10:30 a.m....
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Principal alerts Berkeley High parents to nearby robbery
Berkeley High School. Photo: Lance Knobel Berkeley High School Principal Pasquale Scuderi sent the following email memo out to parents at 5:05 p.m. It appears below in its entirety. To subscribe to the...
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Portable classroom plan at Berkeley schools delayed
The portable classrooms at Washington Elementary School were installed in the late 1960s as a temporary measure. Photo: Google Street View A school district proposal to replace decades-old portable...
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Area gunfire puts Berkeley’s LeConte school on lockdown
LeConte Elementary School was on lockdown today, Thursday Jan. 9. Photo: LeConte LeConte Elementary School was put on lockdown at 2:15 p.m. today after the Berkeley police responded to an attempted...
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Berkeley schools implement $2M safety plan
Berkeley High School, which has had reported incidents of guns on campus in the past, will, like all BUSD schools, benefit from new spending on safety improvements. Photo: Wikimedia Commons When gun...
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Police activity puts Willard Middle School on lockdown
Willard Middle School, at 2425 Stuart St. in Berkeley, was on temporary lockdown on Thursday March 27. Photo: Boguslawa Lewandowska Willard Middle School in Berkeley was on temporary lockdown this...
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Gunshots in South Berkeley, 2 victims
Berkeley Police at the scene of a double shooting in South Berkeley on Wednesday. Photo: Charles Siler Update, 6:17 p.m. A local resident, who asked not to be named due to safety concerns, said he...
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Police make arrest in South Berkeley double shooting
Berkeley Police at the scene of a double shooting in South Berkeley on Wednesday. Photo: Charles Siler Update, June 14: According to the Daily Cal, Wood’s arraignment Friday afternoon was canceled. He...
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Op-Ed: I’m a BHS senior caught in Boston lockdown
Jalena Keane-Lee Today, April 19, 2013, is my 18th birthday. Yesterday I ventured from Berkeley to Boston on a week-long college tour. The plan was to travel to Boston and New York to celebrate my...
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Berkeley High staffer injured, 15 students suspended, due to 500-strong...
Rally Day at Berkeley High in 2012, the last one to happen after it was canceled due to what the district said was rampant drinking among students, among other things. This year, an unsanctioned rally...
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I am a senior at Berkeley High School, I’ve been in school Leadership — a student government organization — for all four years, and I was present at Friday’s Rally Day mob scene. I know it got...
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BUSD superintendent: ‘We have much more work to do’
Unruly behavior at Berkeley High on Rally Day this year has prompted the district superintendent to concentrate on finding new leadership for the school. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel In response to...
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Noose hanging from tree discovered at Berkeley High
Berkeley High is addressing issues of racial hatred after a noose was found hanging in a tree on campus on Oct. 1. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley police are investigating the discovery of a noose...
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Noose at Berkeley High raised concerns over past suicide
The noose that was discovered hanging from a tree at BHS on the afternoon of Wednesday Oct. 1. Photo: Anonymous tipster Berkeley High administrators considered whether a noose found hanging in a tree...
View ArticleOp-ed: Sexual harassment at Berkeley High must stop
On the evening of Nov. 12 we sent an invitation to each member of the Berkeley School Board and to members of the leadership team of the Superintendent’s office at the Berkeley Unified School District,...
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Students target sexual harassment at Berkeley High School
The student leaders of an anti-sexual harassment campaign model the t-shirts they will distribute on campus. Photo: Brea Kaye Earlier this year, some male students at Berkeley High School created “slut...
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Update: 2 Berkeley High students injured, 3 arrested after fights downtown
Paramedics tended to one victim Thursday after what authorities said was a fight downtown. Photo: Nathan Slavik Update, Jan. 24, 8:45 p.m. The Berkeley Police Department said the two arrests referenced...
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Feds launch civil rights investigation into Berkeley School District’s...
Berkeley High School: at the center of a sexual harassment investigation. Photo: Lance Knobel The federal Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into whether the Berkeley Unified School...
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