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Berkeley, California



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Schools

The first public school in Berkeley was the Ocean View School, now the site of the Berkeley Adult School located at Virginia Street and San Pablo Avenue. The public schools today are administered by the Berkeley Unified School District. In the 1960s, Berkeley was one of the earliest US cities to voluntarily desegregate, utilizing a system of buses, still in use. The city has only one public high school, Berkeley High, established in 1880. The Berkeley High campus was designated a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2008. [13] Saint Mary's College High School, a Catholic school, has its street address in Berkeley, although most of the grounds and buildings are actually in neighboring Albany. Berkeley has eleven elementary schools and three middle schools. There is also the prestigious Bay Area Technology school, the only school in the whole Bay Area to offer a technology- and science-based curriculum, which major connections to leading universities.

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Notable People

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Mayors

City of Berkeley Mayor's Office

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Sister cities

Berkeley has thirteen sister cities:[14]

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References

  1. ^ Bay Area Center for Voting Research: http://www.govpro.com/News/Article/31439/
  2. ^ US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990. United States Census Bureau (2005-05-03). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  3. ^ Lawson, A. C. (ed.), “The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906”, 1908, Reprinted 1969 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This is a comprehensive report on the 1906 earthquake, published by the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, and comprises two volumes and an atlas. It contains a discussion of the 1868 Hayward Fault earthquake and its effects, and includes a number of photos taken by Lawson himself of damage in Berkeley caused by the 1906 quake. The report is available from the USGS here.
  4. ^ Jane Houston Jones. San Francisco Weather – Weird and Wacky. SJAA Ephemeris July 2001.
  5. ^ Western Regional Climate Center Web site
  6. ^ Monthly Averages for Berkeley, Weather.com, Accessed September 15, 2006.
  7. ^ Population, City of Berkeley.
  8. ^ Statistics of Berkeley, California, City Data.com
  9. ^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  10. ^ Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety in Berkeley, City of Berkeley.
  11. ^ “Chicanery tops meters in Berkeley”, San Francisco Chronicle.
  12. ^ The History of Ashkenaz. Ashkenaz.com.
  13. ^ Berkeley Daily Planet, January 22–24, 2008
  14. ^ Sister cities designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI). Retrieved on May 3, 2007.

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