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Sports By Hannah Sumner, October 10th, 2025 Latina women have been breaking records for decades. Yet, even now, many Latina athletes are still not household names. From local competitions to the Olympics, there has been a long history of Latina women in sports, but the journey of getting recognition has had its challenges. From facing racist and sexist discrimination, to having severely underfunded athletic programs and beyond, Latina women have often had to break boundaries just to be seen.

The Berkeley High School Speech and Debate team set a record this April, winning both the Tournament of Champions (TOC) and the California State Championships. This is the first time that BHS has won the California State Championships and marks the first instance for a school to have won both the TOC and the California State Championships since the start of the National Parliamentary Debate League’s Tournament of Champions.

were moving up and bragging about it, while I was pretending to read and making up the story from the covers and images. That got me by in kindergarten and first grade, and I didn’t understand how people were reading the words and understanding them.” Students struggling to properly learn how to read doesn’t just affect students with learning differences. Class and race also play a large role.

In November of 2020, Berkeley Unified School District announced its plans to construct a triple-story staff parking garage, topped with a Berkeley High School tennis court. In November of 2020, Berkeley Unified School District announced its plans to construct a triple-story staff parking garage, topped with a Berkeley High School tennis court.

This chart updates automatically every day at 5:00 PM. Jerome Paulos In the past few weeks, over 300 students attending Berkeley High School (BHS) tested positive for COVID-19, due largely to the surge of the Omicron variant and increased rapid testing in Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD). The BHS administration has worked to add precautions, attempting to lower the number of COVID-19 cases and keep instruction in-person.

The humanities teach us about each other — about how to understand one another and how to understand the world. And yet, they are undoubtedly losing status in education. Berkeley High School (BHS) is no exception. In an informal Instagram poll, the Jacket found that 76 percent of about 200 respondents said that they did not find humanities and STEM classes equally challenging.

Students at Bishop O’Dowd walked out to protest sexual harm in a movement that shares similarities with the one at BHS. Ava Mussi Students at several Bay Area high schools have organized walkouts and movements against sexual harm in recent weeks. Both Oakland School for the Arts (OSA) and Bishop O’Dowd High School students, in particular, have organized these events.

Students at Berkeley High School (BHS) began noticing suspicious activity on social media at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. Many class of 2021 seniors, including Charlotte (name has been changed to preserve privacy), were receiving Instagram Direct Messages containing explicit photographs and asking for personal information and images. Several other students were hacked by the anonymous account.

“I don’t know how to describe how angry I was when we got the call that [Matthew Bissell] was no longer hired here and the story had not gone public,” said Berkeley High School (BHS) yearbook teacher Genevieve Mage. “That meant that he was about to scuttle off into the dark, move to another school district, and no one would know.

Opinion Throughout the pandemic, low-income families and immigrants have been working tirelessly on the front lines. They’ve been significantly more vulnerable to COVID-19 exposure and financial strain, yet obstacles involving documentation and accessibility have made it much more difficult for them to receive a number of stimulus services. Berkeley must provide better access to resources regarding pandemic-related financial aid to prevent families from ending up on the streets.