As you walk around downtown, you may notice many new affordable and market-rate housing units popping up. Now, a $500,000 grant announced Thursday will contribute to this changing landscape.
Downtown is slowly becoming a place not just to work but to live. Many affordable and market housing units are popping up. And on Thursday a $500,000 grant to further invest in downtown’s core was announced.
Since the closing of Berkeley public schools more than a year and a half ago, parents of middle and high school students have organized to reopen classrooms and in-person instruction.
Berkeley Parents for Full Reopening, or BPFR, is a group of more than 40 families who are now pursuing legal action against Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD.
“These parent efforts seek to return students to full-time, in-person instruction and address the significant learning loss and deterioration in the mental health among children and teens that school closures have created,” a BPFR press release reads.
Despite the push by local health officials to reopen all public schools, BUSD has only reopened classrooms for those in elementary schools, creating an “unequal situation” for middle and high school students, according to the press release.