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The Culver City Education Foundation is proud to announce a grant of $50,000 to provide culturally relevant and inclusive titles to all elementary, middle and high school libraries. This gift is made possible thanks to a generous bequest for library support by Darlene Bilkiss, a beloved kindergarten teacher at Farragut for 38 years. The project started…

More than 140 Culver City High School graduates in 2019 and 2020 were able to apply to the college of their choice without paying an application fee, courtesy of a new program sponsored by the CCEF.   The program, named #IApplied, provides up to $100 for one college application by each graduating student to a…

The Culver City High School Robotics team has tripled in size during the past four years to 45 members — growth made possible by $65,000 in CCEF support. In 2019, the team won a regional competition and competed in the national championship in Houston.

The Culver City Education Foundation has launched its new arts endowment with $450,000 in initial donations and will seek to grow the fund to $10 million in the coming years. The goal is to create an endowment large enough so that expected annual income will be able to sustain a strong arts program for the…

The Culver City Unified School District expanded its K-12 music programs in 2019 thanks to strong support from the CCEF.   The district now has five music teachers who lead programs at the elementary, middle and high school levels.  At Culver City High School students can participate in the marching band, a jazz band, a…

In 2019, CCEF and the CCUSD marked ten years of supporting the Front and Center Theater Collaborative, which includes seven professional arts organizations. In 2019, more than 4,000 CCUSD students attended classes in writing, performing and improvisation. The six arts organizations in the collaborative include the 24th Street Theatre, The Actors’ Gang, Center Theatre Group,…

The CCEF sponsors a unique program that sends all fifth and eighth grade students in the CCUSD to visit local college campuses. In a typical year, some 1,100 students participate districtwide. The concept of sending elementary school students on college field trips began in 2012 at one CCUSD school. Parents and the principal realized in…