A custodian for the Berkeley Unified School District was arrested on Wednesday for engaging in lewd conduct outside an elementary school he previously worked at, the district said in an email to parents.
Update: At a town hall on March 17, Superintendent Stephens said that he does not expect any substitutes to be teaching students who remain in distance learning.
Update: At a town hall on March 16, Superintendent Brent Stephens said that he thinks distance learning students will be taught by BUSD teachers and substitutes will be used for in-person classes. “W
e may here and there have a substitute working in distance learning, but by and large I think our substitutes will be working in-person,” he said.
This is a change from what Stephens told Berkeleyside on Monday, that he would “prefer to have a mix of substitutes for in-person and distance learning.”