Benicia Unified School District Superintendent Charles Young announced Wednesday that Benicia High School vice principal Brianna Kleinschmidt would be promoted to the school’s principal position. Kleinschmidt takes the reins of Mark Corti who had filled in as interim principal following the resignation of Damon Wright in June 2015, after Wright accepted a position as principal […]
Schedule Advisory Committee holds community forum at Benicia High School
Benicia High School’s Schedule Advisory Committee hosted a community forum Thursday to address questions and concerns about a new schedule that would be implemented in the 2017-18 school year. The Schedule Advisory Committee was created in November when Charles Young, superintendent of Benicia Unified School District, was looking to satisfy a goal from the previous […]
School board to hear update on stadium renovation project
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will listen to a status update on Benicia High School’s new stadium at Thursday’s meeting. The stadium is one of the largest projects to be financed through Measure S, an initiative approved by Benicia voters in 2014 to provide $49.6 million in bond funding […]
Benicia High School spring dance show puts fame under microscope
As the late David Bowie once remarked “Fame puts you where things are hollow.” It is hard to resist the temptation of fame, but living the glamorous life has its downsides, especially when it comes to starting on the path down the rabbit hole of fame. This topic is the subject of Benicia High School’s […]
School board discusses next year’s enrollment at Thursday’s meeting
Tim Rahill, the chief business official of Benicia Unified School District, delivered a report on enrollment projections for the 2016-17 school year at a shortened school board meeting Thursday. Rahill noted that kindergarten and transitional kindergarten enrollment numbers are slated to be about the same as the previous year. Meanwhile, the district’s four elementary schools […]
Benicia elementary schools nominated for Gold Ribbon status
Three of Benicia’s four elementary schools have been nominated to become Gold Ribbon California elementary schools. Mary Farmar, Joe Henderson and Robert Semple elementary schools are in the running to become Gold Ribbon schools for the year. The Gold Ribbon Schools Award Program was created in 2015 as a replacement for the California Distinguished Schools […]
Parent teacher groups join forces for auction event at Clock Tower
For the third year in a row, the Parent Teacher Groups of Joe Henderson and Robert Semple elementary schools will be joining forces for a Mardi Gras-themed live and silent auction for adults only. According to Crystal Luna-Yarnell, the event’s co-chair and a parent of a third grader at Joe Henderson, the idea came about […]
Benicia and Liberty High discuss WASC updates at school board meeting
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District heard reports from Liberty High School and Benicia High School regarding the institutions’ Western Association of Schools and Colleges visits at its meeting Thursday. WASC is an academic body responsible for the accreditation of K-12 schools and universities in California and Hawaii, the territories of Guam […]
Schedule Advisory Committee recommends new schedule at Benicia High School
On a regular day of school, Benicia High School students wake up early in the morning to be in class at 8 a.m. Those who take “early bird” classes have to be in the door at 7. The day ends at 3:05, and students who do not have extracurricular activities try to finish the reading […]
WASC updates on school board agenda tonight
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will hear reports from Liberty and Benicia High School regarding Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) visits at tonight’s meeting. WASC is an academic organization responsible for the accreditation of K-12 schools and public and private universities. If a school is accredited, it meets the […]