Lee Pollard of HY Architects delivered a presentation on plans to modernize the Benicia Middle School campus at Thursday’s school board meeting. The project is one of many to be funded by Measure S, an initiative approved by Benicia voters in 2014 to provide $49.6 million in bond funding to be spent on facilities […]
School board to vote on Benicia Middle School campus renovation at Thursday’s meeting
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will be voting on a proposed renovation of Benicia Middle School’s campus at Thursday’s board meeting. Construction on the current BMS campus was completed in 1976 and was comprised of four buildings and eight portable classrooms. Now the school is looking to modernize its campus by […]
Benicia Unified dives into survey data at Thursday’s school board meeting
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District heard further discussion on student responses to the Relationships, Effort, Aspirations, Cognitions, Heart (REACH) survey at Thursday’s meeting, this time focusing on the district’s efforts to improve its scores. The REACH Survey is administered to students in grades 6 through 12 to examine the relationships between […]
School board to hear additional data of REACH Survey at Thursday’s meeting
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will hear a further overview on Benicia Unified School District students’ responses to the Relationships, Effort, Aspirations, Cognitions, Heart (REACH) survey at Thursday’s board meeting. The REACH survey is considered a supplement to the California Healthy Kids Survey and further examines the relationships between students and […]
Benicia high schoolers gearing up for poetry competition
The method of learning by doing is certainly true of poetry. After all, one can learn a lot about becoming a great poet by immersing oneself in the great poetic works and performing them for an audience. That is the basic premise of Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation contest founded by California Poet […]
Benicia High offers computer clubs for tech-savvy students
One of the many privileges of being a student at Benicia High School is having the opportunity to enroll in any number of the diverse range of clubs the school has to offer. In recent years, several computer and technology based clubs have made their way onto the list, keeping in pace with the increasing […]
Benicia Moms Group’s Early Education Fair returns
Preschool is an important milestone in every person’s life. It is when children take their first steps into the world of education. However, it can be a lot of work just to get started. Thankfully, as they have done in the past, the Benicia Moms Group will be hosting an Early Education Fair to […]
2016 Year in Review: Big changes at BUSD
(Over the next few days, the Benicia Herald will close out 2016 by revisiting the big local news stories of the year. Today’s edition will focus on Benicia’s schools.) Although 2015 was a big year for Benicia Unified School District in terms of leadership changes and Measure S bond projects, 2016 was even bigger. Leadership/personnel […]
Supe: BUSD working to address contract negotiations
The Benicia Unified School District has been working to address contract negotiations as well as the national teacher shortage, Superintendent Charles Young said. Last week, the Benicia Teachers’ Association indicated that it was at an impasse with the district over salary negotiations and also acknowledged concerns over how America’s teacher shortage was impacting Benicia. Among […]
School board says goodbye to trustee Andre Stewart
At its Thursday meeting, the Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District bid farewell to longtime Trustee Andre Stewart. Stewart, then a chief officer for Napa medical insurance organization The Doctors Company, was appointed to the board in 2006 following the resignation of Jamie Blomdal. In that time— including a brief tenure as […]