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School Board to Address Guns at Berkeley Schools, Property Sales and District Layoffs

Berkeley Patch will be live tweeting the school board meeting from 7:30 p.m. tonight. Follow @berkeleypatch for updates.

Berkeley Patch will be live tweeting the Berkeley Unified School District Board meeting from 7:30 p.m. Follow us at www.twitter.com/berkeleypatch for updates. The full agenda packet is available here.

The school board meeting is televised on local cable channel 33 and broadcast live on the radio station KPFB 89.3 FM.

Tonight's agenda includes:

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  • New textbooks for Berkeley High School, including Krugman’s Macroeconomics for AP by Margaret Ray and David Anderson, Environmental Systems and Societies by Andrew Davis and Garrett Nagle and English 3D by Kate Kinsella, Ed. D. 
  • A proposal to approve the 2011-2012 Carl Perkins Grant Application for Berkeley High School, which provides school districts with funding for the improvement of secondary vocational and technical education programs.
  • A proposal to approve the 2010-2011 Contract for Through the Looking Glass for Special Education Department, which would provide highly specialized behavior support techniques, primarily with students on the autism spectrum. The cost is $79,813, funded by the Special Education budget.
  • A resolution to eliminate or reduce certain classified positions, including the elimination of a health education assistant, a student welfare specialist and a clerical assistant. 
  • A proposal to accept bids for the Hillside School property.
  • Consideration of recommendations to eliminate the presence of guns at Berkeley Unified School District Schools. Proposals include increasing the presence of police and security officers at schools and ensuring they have distinctive uniforms, gun and violence prevention education, more rigid enforcement of the closed campus policy at Berkeley High and tightening perimiter security and implementing identification badges for students. 

The school board will also decide whether to approve the following $29,312.93 in donations:

  • Chefs Move to Schools/Partnership for a Healthier America donated 14 cooking equipment kits valued at $2,000 each for a total donation of $28,000 to the Network for a Health California to support nutritionbased cooking and garden classes.
  • Lifetouch Pictures donated $68.55 to purchase school supplies for Le Conte  School. 
  • King PTA donated $67.50 to pay for substitute teacher for field trip forKing Middle School.
  • Jack Diaz donated $120 through the Clorox Company Foundation  Employee Giving campaign to be utilized as needed for Rosa Parks School.
  • Lu Yu donated $53.83 and Cynthia Kuo donated $673.05 for a total donation of $726.88 through the Wells Fargo Community Support/United Way Campaign to be utilized as needed for Rosa Parks School.
  • Matthew and Eva Klein donated $50, Liat Rorer $100, Sheila and Lucas Metcalf-Tobin $50, Stephen C. Blakespoor $40, Madeline L. Lamperti $40 and Michael James Cope donated $50 for a total donation of $330 to pay for teacher tickets to attend the BPEF banquet on May 6, 2011 for Washington School.

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