The Contra Costa County Office of Education’s “53rd Annual Contra Costa County Teacher of the Year Dinner & Celebration,” is set for Thursday, Sept. 4 at the Concord Hilton. Check-in starts at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m.
Two teachers from Lincoln Elementary School in Richmond were nominated for the Contra Costa County 2024-25 Teachers of the Year award.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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…