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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 city auditor candidate and UC Berkeley alumna Jennifer Li Wong has garnered more than 30 endorsements from a variety of local officials and community members, as of Thursday.

The Berkeley Unified School District board approved next year’s budget and made recommendations for the Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, at the board’s Wednesday meeting.

Composed of nearly 300 members, LavenderCal regularly hosts social activities for campus LGBTQ+ and allied staff and faculty.

Sylvia Mendez was the plaintiff in the landmark 1947 case Mendez v. Westminster. The case challenged the “whites only” policy of four Los Angeles school districts, and ultimately the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Mendez.

The Berkeley Unified School District violated the Educational Employment Relations Act by disciplining an employee for distributing an email that was critical of the district, according to a ruling by the California Public Employment Relations Board.

Clarence Johnson, head football coach for the BHS Yellowjackets, said an altercation involving BHS students, coupled with a social media post that “alarmed” administrators, raised enough concern to cancel the Friday game.

The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve a universal ninth-grade program for all incoming Berkeley High School freshmen which will take effect beginning fall 2018.

The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, and the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT, a labor union that represents more than 800 BUSD teachers and school staff, have reached a tentative agreement in 2017-18 and 2018-19 contract negotiations, according to a joint press release issued Wednesday.

On Monday, the California State Senate passed SB 607 — spearheaded by State Senator Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley — which eliminated “willful defiance” as justification for suspension and expulsion of students in grades K-12.