[BHS Etree] BUSD: Board of Education Selects Julie Sinai to Fill Board Vacancy

[BHS etree]

PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact Mark Coplan
markcoplan at berkeley.net 

 

At a Special Meeting on May 1, 2013, the Board of Education unanimously
voted to appoint Julie Sinai, U.C. Berkeley's Director of Local Government
and Community Relations, to fill an 18 month vacancy on the Board.

 

The appointment followed a process that brought 10 candidates from
throughout the community to fill a seat that opened when Board President
Leah Wilson resigned on March 31, 2013, due to a possible conflict of
interest in her new role as Court Executive Officer for the Alameda County
Superior Court. The Berkeley/Albany League of Women Voters facilitated the
Public Comment and Candidate Statement portion of the meeting.

 

President Hemphill remarked on the high quality of all of the applicants,
stating, "It is a testimony to our community's belief in public education,
and their commitment to making a quality education accessible to all of our
youth."  

 In the discussion of the strong field of candidates, Board members
emphasized the need for the new Director to hit the ground running, with a
new Superintendent coming on board soon, as well as ongoing labor
negotiations, continued work on advancing the 2020 Vision, instituting the
Common Core curriculum and strengthening partnerships with families, faith
based and community organizations, and institutions of higher education.

 

The Directors unanimously agreed that Julie Sinai stood out as someone who
could "roll up her sleeves and be ready for work on day one."
Director-Select Sinai will have an opportunity to do just that when she is
sworn in and joins the Board for their May 8th meeting.

 

Julie Sinai has a long history of involvement with the Berkeley Unified
School District (BUSD), beginning with her role as the Director of
School-Linked Programs for BUSD from 1999-2002. As the Mayor of Berkeley's
Senior Aide (2002-2007) and Chief of Staff (2008-2012) she retained a strong
focus on education. Sinai also served as part of the Planning Committee and
Design Team for the 2020 Vision. 

 

In her current role as Director of Local Government and Community Relations
for U.C. Berkeley, Sinai works to build partnerships across the East Bay
with community, educational, and government institutions on issues of mutual
concern. 

 

Her daughter is a junior at Berkeley High School and her son, a 2010 BHS
graduate, is a senior at University of Michigan. Her children have been
students at Rosa Parks, King, and Longfellow. 

 

As Director-Select Sinai expressed her sincere appreciation to the Berkeley
School Board for their vote of support and confidence in her, she said "It
is an honor to serve with such strong advocates for public education. I am
truly humbled by the list of applicants for this position. Our community is
so fortunate to have such passionate, committed and knowledgeable people
working on behalf of our kids."

 

This has been a busy week for the Berkeley School Board, with a delegation
of Board, District and community members having conducted and debriefed a
site visit to Hayward, the home district of Dr. Donald Evans, the finalist
for the position of Superintendent for BUSD. An update on the Superintendent
site visit is posted on the  <http://www.berkeleyschools.net/> BUSD website
http://www.berkeleyschools.net/ 

 


Mark Coplan, Public Information Officer

Berkeley Unified School District

 <tel:510-644-6320> 510-644-6320 

 

__________________________________

Diane Douglas, Marguerite Fa-Kaji and Lisa Sibony are the parent-volunteer
facilitators of the etree; please direct any questions to them at
<mailto:bhs-owner at lmi.net> bhs-owner at lmi.net. To post a message, send to:
<mailto:bhs at lmi.net> bhs at lmi.net; BHS etree archives:
<http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/> http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/

To unsubscribe from the etree, send an email to
<mailto:bhs-request at lmi.net> bhs-request at lmi.net with one word only in the
subject line: 'unsubscribe'; To subscribe to the etree, send an email to
<mailto:bhs-request at lmi.net> bhs-request at lmi.net with one word only in the
subject line: 'subscribe'

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/attachments/20130502/c45e530f/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: BUSD Sinai Appointment Press Release 05_02_13.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 96183 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/attachments/20130502/c45e530f/attachment.pdf>