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Personal finance course will soon be required to graduate high school
Soon, all California high school students will learn about college grants and loans, how tax rates work, the benefits of insurance and how interest high rates can blow your budget when you miss a payment on a credit card. Berkeley High personal finance class promises $2.4M ‘for free’. In...
Dress Best for Less grants $50,000 for Piedmont schools
On May 16, DBFL Board Member and incoming PEF Board Member Nagisa Yamamoto presented a check for $35,000 to the PEF Board, an addition to the $15,000 contribution made last October. Said Yamamoto, “I am honored to be joining the PEF board as the new DBFL Representative. I am looking forward to working together to support the children of Piedmont.”
Summer school offers new teachers a chance to experiment
Are you a new teacher? If you can, teach summer school!. No, your district did not pay me to say this; there is a method to my madness. Summer school gets a bad rap. Its portrayal in movies doesn’t help either. It’s not just a sweaty classroom full of students who are defiant and rude. In my experience, these are students who just need to fix the mistakes they made in the school year. Summer school should be seen as an opportunity for students and teachers. Teaching summer school can be an extremely beneficial choice, especially for new teachers.
Cal football’s Summer Reading Challenge bridges athletics, education
Cal football’s Summer Reading Challenge started with a touchdown celebration. In 2017, one of Patrick Laird’s teammates suggested he pretend to read a book the next time he scored. And after he breezed past North Carolina for a 54-yard score, the running back obliged. “I was a walk-on...
Longfellow Middle School red-tagging scares Berkeley parents
For the first time in several years, it felt like things were getting into a routine when it came to school, Berkeley parent Rebecca Sherer said. For her rising seventh-grader who attends Longfellow Middle School and her older daughter, things were starting to feel more regular than they had in years.
Richmond graduate to receive CA Charter Schools Association scholarship
SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has selected ten outstanding charter high school students to receive the 2024 Susan Steelman Bragato Scholarship, a statewide award honoring charter high school graduates who have overcome adversity, given back to their communities, and are pursuing post-secondary education in the fall. The list includes Carolina Ayala, a Class of 2024 graduate of Making Waves Academy in Richmond. According to Inayah Baaqee the academy’s Associate Director of Academic Advising, Ayala was one of 81 graduates this year from the Richmond area and throughout Contra Costa County.
Former Chancellor Carol Christ addresses Jewish community, outlines support plans
Toward the eve of her term as chancellor, Carol Christ addressed the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Jewish Student Life and Campus Climate, or CACJSLCC, in a letter outlining UC Berkeley plans to support the Jewish community. The letter — sent June 24 — follows Christ’s promise after a recent...
ACC officially adds Cal, SMU and Stanford to the conference
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference continues to ACCOMPLISH GREATNESS with the addition of three world-class institutions in the University of California, Berkeley (Cal), Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Stanford University as full members with full voting participation. SMU’s first official day in the ACC is July 1, 2024, while Cal and Stanford will become official members on August 2, 2024. All three institutions will begin conference competition this fall. The additions of Cal, SMU and Stanford enhance and strengthen the ACC academically, athletically and financially as well as create a true national conference that spans coast to coast. The incoming universities...
New Superintendent Galletti talks plans for the future of Sunol Glen
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shay Galletti, former coordinator of early literacy and numeracy in Pleasanton, officially started her new job as superintendent and principal at Sunol Glen School on Monday after she was appointed by the school board on June 18. While Galletti started her new position as...
Good Form & Royal Coffee Team Up To Offer Two Scholarships For The Q Exam
Becoming a Q Grader is perhaps one of the most difficult certifications in all of coffee. It requires rigorous study, 20 different tests—often with multiple retakes—with a pass rate around 25-30%. And it’s prohibitively expensive, sometimes in the thousands of dollars if travel is required to take the exams.
Recall of Two Sunol School Board Members Appears Headed to Victory
A campaign to recall two of the three school board members in the Sunol Glen Unified School District appears headed to victory — with early results Tuesday evening showing that roughly 54% of voters in the rural East Bay community have voted to remove trustee Ryan Jergensen and 53% of voters support the removal of trustee Linda Hurley.
The Oakland Ed Week in Review 6/22/24-6/28/24
We’re back with our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, state, and nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. As the school year draws to a close across the...
Molly Gray towers over California high school divers after 2 close calls
CONCORD, CA (July 1, 2024) — Clayton Valley Charter is now home to the best one-meter female high school diver in the state of California. Winning the state diving championship, holding the all-time NCS record and being a two-time NISCA All-America, Molly Gray has accomplished a lot in her first three years of high school.
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