Berkeley Unified School District Board

More than a week after the 2022 midterm elections, the Alameda County Registrar's Office has finalized the counting of ballots with the election results for both Alameda County and the city of Berkeley being released Friday. 

Current board president Ka’Dijah Brown leads with 27.52% of the vote as of press time. Meanwhile, Jennifer Shanoski captured 21.9% of the vote with Mike Chang and Reichi Lee close behind at 21.73% and 21.16%, respectively.

Each selected candidate has been chosen for their commitment to the city and their constituents, as well as their responses to interviews with the editorial board

Tatiana Guerreiro Ramos, a BUSD parent and former teacher, is running for a seat on the district’s school board. 

Members of the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education discussed the potential alleviation of health measures and a proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff at their regular meeting Wednesday. 

Michael Chang, a lawyer, UC Berkeley lecturer and local parent, is running for the Berkeley Unified School District board.

Berkeley voters could see a new special tax that aims to address Berkeley Unified School District’s, or BUSD, current teacher recruitment and retention “crisis” on the 2020 ballot.

Last week, the Berkeley Unified School District board unanimously approved a policy that would require all girls’ and gender-neutral bathrooms to have free menstrual products — a mark of progress on the district’s part. But what’s alarming is that the world’s “No. 1 public university” has yet to follow suit in providing this basic necessity to community members.

Berkeley Unified School District Board President Josh Daniels and board member Karen Hemphill participated in their final meeting as board members Wednesday night, delivering advice and parting thoughts.

Citing worries about the standardized testing mandated to start next week, members from the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT, addressed the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, school board at its Wednesday meeting — its first meeting of the school year.