The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will be holding another vote on the graduation requirements for Benicia High School at Thursday’s meeting before it embarks on its summer recess. Staff is recommending the board revert back to its previous graduation requirements in an effort to hold further discussions with the community. On […]
School board approves 5 new BHS courses, delays vote on 2
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District approved five new Benicia High School courses— advanced engineering design, basic welding and automotive, Construction & Building Trades 1, introduction to medical careers, and yoga— and held two— physics of the universe and “Get Focused”— for further discussion at Thursday’s meeting. Dr. Leslie Beatson, the assistant […]
Community makes plea for support of arts, electives at Benicia High School during Thursday’s school board meeting
Supe: Board will revisit graduation requirements in September Hundreds of students, alumni, parents and teachers filled the Benicia Unified School District office to address concerns over Benicia High School’s new graduation requirements, scheduled to go into effect for the class of 2022, at Thursday’s school board meeting. In fact, the turnout was so large that […]
New Benicia High School courses to be considered for approval at Thursday school board meeting
New Benicia High School courses are among the many items on the agenda for the Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District’s Thursday meeting. There are seven new courses that are being considered for implementation at Benicia High School for its 2017-18 school year.These course outlines will be presented by Dr. Leslie Beatson, assistant […]
Funding plan discussed at Thursday’s school board meeting
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District heard an update on the district’s Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) at Thursday’s meeting. In 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Local Control Funding Formula, which allows school districts to decide which programs and services to spend state funding on. The LCAP is slowly […]
Slate of Measure S projects on agenda for Thursday’s school board meeting
Lee Pollard of HY Architects and Measure S Bond Director Roxanne Egan will deliver an update on progress to the renovation of Benicia Middle School at Thursday’s school board meeting. The renovation of BMS is one of the last remaining projects in the first phase of Measure S, an initiative approved by voters in 2014 […]
School board to consider teacher pay raises at Thursday’s meeting
A tentative agreement between the Benicia Teachers’ Association (BTA) and the Benicia Unified School District offering salary increases is scheduled to be voted on at the school board’s Thursday meeting. In November, the BTA declared that it was at an impasse with the district over contract negotiations for pay raises. Bargaining teams had met for […]
Teachers, community address school board over teacher shortage
(Editor’s note: Regarding the contract negotiations, the district and Benicia Teachers’ Association reached a tentative agreement for the 2016-2017 school year at 5:12 p.m. Friday. The parties will be taking the terms of the agreement to their respective constituents for ratification. Sunday’s paper had been finished before then, so this information was not ready for […]
School board votes to set retention of 2 Measure S projects at 10%
After a public hearing, the Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District unanimously voted to set the retention for two Measure S projects at 10 percent for being substantially complex at Thursday’s meeting. The first project in question was a fire alarm upgrade at Benicia High School— not Benicia Middle School as previously reported. […]
School board to hold public hearing on ‘substantially complex’ Measure S projects
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will be holding a public hearing at Thursday’s meeting to set the retention for two Measure S projects at 10 percent because they are considered substantially complex. Measure S is an initiative that was approved by Benicia voters in 2014 to provide $49.6 million in bond […]