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Students at Longfellow Middle School will soon be getting a seven-period day. File photo: Natalie Orenstein
Change is on the horizon at Longfellow Middle School, which will be getting a longer day, smaller class sizes and more electives. Last week, the Berkeley school board voted to award the middle school one-time funds to add a seventh period and 55 minutes to the school day. The district’s other two middle schools will stick with six periods.
The funds are part of the district’s latest effort to reduce long-standing inequities at Longfellow, which a May 2020 report shows has a greater share of disadvantaged students and lower test scores than King and Willard and has faced persistent resource gaps, under-enrollment, and teacher and staff turnover.
This story was first published on Berkeleyside’s sister site, The Oaklandside.
“Chicken or steak?”
“I like the steak and my brother wants chicken.”
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Vera Sloan pulled burrito after burrito out of her white van, handing them to people who live in tents and RVs on Wood Street in West Oakland. The site was the first on the St. Mary’s Center’s food distribution route that day, and residents eagerly accepted the offer of a hot meal and bags filled with groceries and toiletries.
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Alameda County decides not to count homeless population this year
COVID-19 risks have prompted a year-long delay in the point-in-time homeless count, a “crucial data source.”
The “Here There” homeless encampment on the Berkeley-Oakland border: Alameda County is requesting a year-long delay to its annual count of homeless residents because of COVID-19 safety concerns.. Photo: Pete Rosos
Alameda County will request a year-long delay to its federally mandated count of homeless residents because of coronavirus safety concerns.
Counties across the U.S. are required to conduct “point-in-time” counts of unhoused residents every two years in January in order to receive federal homeless assistance funds. Groups of volunteers patrol the streets on a single night, tallying the number of homeless people they see and reporting data that are used not only to secure the federal funding, but to inform countless policy and resourcing decisions on the local and state levels as well.
Supriya Yelimeli looks forward to visiting a crowded dining room at Viks Chaat for cholle bhature then going back in line for sweets and seconds. Photo: Mighty Travels/Flickr
Our final installment of year-end food reflections focuses on the future hopefully, the not-so-distant future when we can safely eat, drink and gather again in restaurants and with others outside our immediate households without masks.
Below, you’ll find the hopes and wishes of Nosh, Berkeleyside, Oaklandside and Cityside contributors and staff on the topic, but we’d love to hear what you’re looking forward to most, when it comes to food, when the pandemic is over. Share your thoughts in the comments below.