Vanessa Arredondo
Education Reporter at Berkeleyside
Reporter @ Open Vallejo | Previously: Ask me about my internships / fellowships! | Forever: @roundupnews | ¡Also en español, for reals! |
Articles
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1 week ago |
berkeleyside.org | Vanessa Arredondo
Facing a $7 million budget deficit, Berkeley Unified officials are looking for new ways to create savings and generate revenue, including out-of-the-ordinary solutions such as charging elementary students for transportation. Other suggestions to help balance the budget include reductions to BUSD’s Office of Family Engagement and its college readiness and after-school programs. The school board will discuss these ideas and others at its meeting this Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Vanessa Arredondo
Older Berkeley residents are urging city and county leaders to hold off on reductions to transportation benefits offered through the Berkeley Rides for Seniors and the Disabled (BRSD) program after cuts were announced in a memo to the City Council in early April.
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3 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Vanessa Arredondo
Chawn Jackson said her eldest son, who is graduating from Cal State University, Chico, in a few weeks, might not have gone to college if it weren’t for the support he received from Berkeley High School’s Bridge program, which supports students of color on a path to higher education. “He kind of struggled because he didn’t know whether he was going to go to college or not,” Jackson said.
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4 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Vanessa Arredondo
The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) has reversed course on requiring all incoming high school students next year to take a physical education (P.E.) class instead of a second elective, following confusion and backlash from community members.
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4 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Vanessa Arredondo
When Francisco decided to leave for the U.S. at 19, his mother worried that he wouldn’t be able to ask for food because he did not speak Spanish. Francisco, born in Guatemala with indigenous ancestry, left home after his country’s military began targeting Mayans and others in the mid-1980s during what is now known as the Guatemalan Genocide.
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