The school board will determine which process will be used to fill the vacancy left by late Trustee Rosie Switzer at Thursday’s meeting. Switzer, who passed away Nov. 29, had been serving the Benicia Unified School District’s Governing Board for 10 years. Per Education Code 5090-5095, the board has a variety of options to fill […]
Benicia High School to participate in worldwide coding lessons
Computers are ubiquitous in today’s society, but not everybody knows what goes into making them work. According to code.org, a nonprofit organization that encourages more participation in computer science courses, there are approximately 400,000 students enrolled in computer science classes, but over 1.4 million computing jobs which make up $5 billion in wage opportunities. Computer […]
Benicia High School teacher promotes hands-on education
Anybody can read about history, but it is another thing for people to feel like they are living past history as they learn about it. Such is the concept of project-based learning, which allows students to learn about subjects through hands-on activities rather than just straight lectures. In the wake of California’s Common Core academic […]
Three BHS departments join forces for winter production
Three prominent performing arts programs at Benicia High School—the dance program, the drama program and the band program— will join forces for Panther Productions’ “Alex in Wonderland: Through the Performing Arts Looking Glass” next weekend. The story takes inspiration from “Alice in Wonderland” and blends it with a frequent nightmare that performing artists have: being […]
BUSD Board Member Rosie Switzer dies
Rosie Switzer, a longtime Benicia educator and school board member, died Sunday afternoon. Dubbed “a tireless champion for students” by Superintendent Charles Young in a statement, Switzer had been serving the Benicia Unified School District for 46 years. In 1969, she and her husband Alan moved to Benicia where they both had long careers as […]
School board OKs plan for student progress
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District voted to approve Benicia Middle School and Benicia High School’s Single Plan for Student Achievement at Thursday night’s meeting. As Assistant Superintendent Marie Morgan noted, the SPSA is developed by school site councils to develop goals that would support the academic performance of all students. The […]
Student achievement plan on agenda for school board meeting
The school board will vote to approve the Single Plan for Student Achievement for Benicia High School and Benicia Middle School at Thursday’s meeting. The SPSA is put together by School Site Councils to develop goals to support the academic performance of all students. Each site team will study state and local measures to track […]
School board approves draft design for Benicia High School stadium
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District voted to approve the draft schematic design for Benicia High School’s renovated stadium at Thursday’s board meeting. As with the Oct. 15 meeting, the project prompted much scrutiny from the board’s trustees. The stadium, which will primarily be used for football and soccer games, is one […]
Panther production of “Our Town” to debut next week
The ubiquity of technology in today’s society is undeniable. Citizens young and old frequently check their phones for new messages and spend their time indoors watching the latest YouTube video. It is because of this pervasiveness that Benicia High School drama teacher Christine Mani was influenced to select Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play “Our Town” as […]
School board discusses merits of proposed BHS stadium design
A presentation on a proposed new design for the upper stadium at Benicia High School prompted much discussion and disagreement at the Benicia Unified School District’s board meeting Thursday night. The renovated stadium is another project to be funded through Measure S funds. Measure S was approved by voters in June 2014 to provide $49.6 […]