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Many were, and still are, vulnerable to street violence and gang life. Too many were dropping out of high school, often after a middle-school experience of frequent suspensions, some for simple acts of defiance. In the youngest grades, one in five were chronically absent from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, one in five African-American boys were being suspended each year from Oakland schools, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://urbanstrategies.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Strategies Council\u003c/a>, and by the eighth grade, half of the boys were off track to graduate from high school. 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These five kids built it using modern game-making software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris Jackson is mixing the sounds for \"Mr. Platformer\" — things like the digital chime of a coin being picked up, a laser being shot, and that unmistakable warble of a power-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I signed up because I love video games, always did,” he says, “I have been playing since I was a few months old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don't know if it actually qualifies as playing, but Morris Jackson's family used to at least put the controller in his hands and let him push the buttons. Now he's 15 and wants to be a professional DJ. 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(Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tracey Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/01/29/cooking-may-be-cut-in-berkeley-schools-edible-program/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cooking component of Berkeley schools’ highly regarded cooking and gardening program may soon be eliminated for financial reasons, and the future of the entire program in middle and high schools is also at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Unified School District board was scheduled to hear details of the proposal in a presentation titled \"Re-envisioning the Cooking and Gardening Program\" at its regular meeting Wednesday. 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It’s a matter of funding what we can fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said that while the new proposal calls for all school gardens to continue to be maintained, gardening instruction would likely be halted at the city’s middle and high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s up for debate,” she said, stressing that the proposal is informational at this point. “But with the limits we are facing, we have to decide where is it more effective to focus.” Thompson said research showed that cooking and gardening classes were most valuable in early childhood years.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/01-29-14_packet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read \"Re-envisioning the Cooking and Gardening Program\" in the school board's agenda packet, starting at Page 334\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>To date, the fully funded program has been active at 11 Berkeley elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools and three early childhood education sites. It employs 17 instructional specialists, a part-time clerical program coordinator and a three-quarter-time supervisor. (The districtwide program is separate from the internationally acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://edibleschoolyard.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Edible Schoolyard Project\u003c/a> at King Middle School. That program is integrated with King's curriculum but funded and operated through a nonprofit foundation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to raise significant outside resources to fund the program have not been sufficiently fruitful. Thompson said a grant writer was hired last year but that fundraising was not successful. She said reaching out to donors is complicated by the fact that the program is now part of educational services and requires a commitment by BUSD to provide regular financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has traditionally been bolstered by significant parent and community support. On hearing about the proposed cuts, parents at Willard Middle School expressed alarm at the idea of doing away with what they say is “at the heart of what they want their children to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They shared a statement with Berkeleyside, part of which read: “We request immediate establishment of a committee to look at the BUSD budget and come up with a solution that avoids program closure. You do not dismantle a national model; it would take at least a decade to rebuild. The short and long-term costs to our children in terms of poor food choices, lack of environmental education, and the scholastic and physical repercussions of greater immobility during the school day are unacceptable.” [\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Willard-statement-re-cooking-and-gardening-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full statement\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is urging the community to sign a \u003ca href=\"http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-public-school-cooking?source=c.fwd&r_by=1152075\" target=\"_blank\">petition urging the federal government to reinstate funds for the program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Thompson said the need to act now is imperative. “If we don’t come up with something, this program is going to die next year,” she said. “The proposal helps give us a baseline and we can build from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BUSD board meets Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Council Chambers, Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, in downtown Berkeley. \u003cstrong>At press time, the item on the cooking and gardening program is no longer expected to be on the agenda.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Board voted 2-1 to adopt some of the consultants’ recommendations Jan. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consultants identified several “obvious weaknesses” in campus safety, said Susan Craig, director of student services. Craig will oversee the staff training program in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We want to enhance our use of surveillance cameras but we want to make sure the privacy of students and staff is not invaded through continual monitoring.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Armed-intruder training, developed shortly after the Columbine High School shooting massacre in 1999, “is nationally accepted and recommended these days,” Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BUSD schools already hold lockdown drills to prepare for intruders. “Where the armed intruder training takes it to the next step is preparing for something you hope you never have to use, which is, God forbid, if the armed intruder breaks through the barricade and gets into the room,” Craig said. “It’s training for how to respond to that, how to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facility improvements recommended in the safety audit reports will begin immediately and will be complete by the end of summer 2015, said Director of Facilities Lew Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both consultants recommended the installation of comprehensive PA systems in all schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every principal at each site visited in BUSD advised that their public address, warning and campuswide communication systems were either nonexistent, not operating or deficient in some way. 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