Julie Sinai

The Berkeley Unified School District board provides much-needed oversight of the city’s public school system. This election season, Berkeley voters have the opportunity to elect three diverse and insightful voices to the board. Of all the candidates running for the board, Sinai, Brown and Alper are undoubtedly the most qualified. Here’s why.

Six candidates — Ty Alper, Norma Harrison, Dru Howard, Abdur Sikder, Julie Sinai and Ka’Dijah Brown — will be vying for the three open board seats.

Five candidates campaigning for the BUSD election in November — Ka’Dijah Brown, Julie Sinai, Ty Alper, Abdur Sikder and Norma Harrison — took turns giving one-minute responses to audience questions.

Berkeley High School has added three new Career Technical Education, or CTE, pathways to its curriculum this fall — electronic technology, carpentry and stagecraft.

Newcomer Ty Alper and incumbent Josh Daniels have attained two of three Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education positions, leaving two incumbents vying for the final seat.

UC Berkeley School of Law professor Ty Alper, Josh Daniels and Karen Hemphill won the three vacant seats on the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education.

Polls in Berkeley closed at 8 p.m. We’ll bring you the results of Berkeley’s elections right here as they come in.

From handling union negotiations to implementing new curriculum, the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education is responsible for discussing the long term vision the city’s local schools. This year five candidates, three of whom are incumbent, are vying for three open seats on the board.

UC Berkeley Law Professor Ty Alper is building on his administrative experience in the Berkeley Unified School District by running for the district’s Board of Education.

As school commenced for students across the Berkeley Unified School District last week, the district entered its fourth week of implementing a new policy aimed at protecting the rights of gender nonconforming students.