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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:red">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:bhsboldcontact@gmail.com">bhsboldcontact@gmail.com</a></span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">Welcome to BOLD</span></b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Berkeley High Families
Owning Learning Differences)</span></b><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">BOLD is a support group
for parents of children with Learning Differences. This group, formed in 2013
by Berkeley High parents, meets on the 2^nd Monday* of the month at
Berkeley High in the College and Career Center from 6:30-8:30. BOLD is
dedicated to finding ways to support, empower and educate students with
learning disabilities and their families by fostering understanding and
advocating for effective intervention.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">Our meetings present
helpful informational topics relevant to parents of high school students with
learning disabilities and forums where parents can voice their concerns, find
resources and information and find a community.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">Our first meeting will
be held on Monday September 19 from 6:30-8:30 in the College and Career Center
in the D building of BHS.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">For the first hour of
our meeting, Larissa Cummings, a staff attorney at the Disability Rights
Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) here in Berkeley who specializes in special
education law will update us on news about DREDF's ongoing special education
advocacy in the Berkeley Unified School District, including its May 2015
dyslexia-focused compliance complaint and its August 2015 disability
discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for
Civil Rights (OCR). She will be accompanied </span><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif"">by Deborah
Jacobson, a private special ed attorney, who is helping DREDF develop the
dyslexia case.<span style="color:black"></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">The second hour will be
a forum to meet new and old members and take note of parent’s issues and
concerns for the new school year.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">*Meeting dates may
change due to holidays, etc. Please look for BHS ETREE announcements for actual
dates.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:black">Questions? email:<a target="_blank" href="mailto:bhsboldcontact@gmail.com"><span style="color:blue">bhsboldcontact@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">_____________________________</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">Marguerite Fa-Kaji,
Catherine Ference and Dylan Kaufman are the parent-volunteer facilitators of
the Etree; please direct any questions about the Etree to them at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,176,240)"><a target="_blank" href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">bhs-owner@lmi.net</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">BHS etree archives: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,176,240)"><a title="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/" target="_blank" href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">BHS website: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,176,240)"><a target="_blank" href="http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">http://bhs.berkeleyschools.net/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>

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send to: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,176,240)"><a target="_blank" href="mailto:bhs@lmi.net"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">bhs@lmi.net</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">To </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:red">unsubscribe</span></u><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)"> </span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)">from the etree, send
an email to </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,176,240)"><a target="_blank" href="mailto:bhs-request@lmi.net"><span style="color:rgb(0,176,240)">bhs-request@lmi.net</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(79,129,189)"> with one word only in the subject line: <b>unsubscribe
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