Lincoln Elementary teachers nominated as County’s Teachers of the Year
Two teachers from Lincoln Elementary School in Richmond were nominated for the Contra Costa County 2024-25 Teachers of the Year award.
Grant Aims to Boost Financial Aid Completion Rates This Summer
A $72,000 grant from the Education Credit Management Corporation Foundation (ECMC) aims to remove barriers in the financial aid application process for West Contra Costa families this summer.
Education Credit Management Corporation Foundation Grant Aims to Boost Financial Aid Completion Rates this Summer
A $72,000 grant from the Education Credit Management Corporation Foundation (ECMC) aims to remove barriers in the financial aid application process for West Contra Costa families this summer.
Youth Code Now triples number of Black and Latino students learning STEM
School days were difficult for Susana Romero, who was 11 when her family left El Salvador and settled in Richmond. She had a hard time with math and her parents, who did not speak English or finish school, couldn’t help her.
About 100 players to compete at Richmond chess festival, as more kids take up game
On a Sunday afternoon in late September, TC Ball entered Richmond’s Multicultural Bookstore with a cart full of kings, queens, bishops, rooks, knights, and pawns and boards to start the first of several chess classes for children.
Ed Fund names Teaching Excellence Award finalists
The West Contra Costa Public Education Fund (Ed Fund) has announced the eight finalists of its 2022 Teaching Excellence Award. Nominations came in from throughout the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) and the Ed Fund identified the eight teachers who “represented the best of the district.”
Ed Fund offering Black History Month project grants to WCCUSD community
The West Contra Costa Public Education Fund is offering grants of up to $1,500 for Black History Month projects within the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) community that “honor and celebrate the lives and contributions of Black Americans.”
WCCUSD arts mini-grants available from the Ed Fund
The application period is open for the West Contra Costa’s Public Education Fund’s (the Ed Fund) Bradley Arts Mini-Grants. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 30, for grants ranging from $500 for West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) individual classrooms and $1,000 for school-wide projects encompassing three-plus classrooms that have the principal’s…
WCCUSD teachers, students honored at ‘Soaring to Excellence’ celebration
Amid the backdrop of the pandemic, four teachers and 10 scholarship-earning students from the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) were honored last week for rising up and prevailing over the most challenging of circumstances.
Education fund raising emergency money for Contra Costa County families hit by COVID-19
Stimulus checks are out, but the West Contra Costa Public Education Fund knows people still need help. The group announced on Thursday it’s partnering with the West Contra Costa Unified School District to raise COVID-19 rapid release funds for 300 more local families in West County.