Contra Costa County Teachers of The Year Announced
By EdFund Staff / September 16, 2025
Vista Teacher Kaitlin Marchesi Wins Contra Costa County Teacher of the Year
By EdFund Staff / September 16, 2025
EdSource Features Freedom School as a Model of Summer Learning Success
By EdFund Staff / August 26, 2025
California’s $14 billion investment in expanded learning transforms summer schools.
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State Superintendent, Tony Thurmond, Freedom School Visit
By EdFund Staff / August 18, 2025
Contra Costa County to honor top educators
By EdFund Staff / June 10, 2025
The Contra Costa County Office of Education’s “53rd Annual Contra Costa County Teacher of the Year Dinner & Celebration,” is set...
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Lincoln Elementary teachers nominated as County’s Teachers of the Year
By EdFund Staff / September 19, 2024
Two teachers from Lincoln Elementary School in Richmond were nominated for the Contra Costa County 2024-25 Teachers of the Year...
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Grant Aims to Boost Financial Aid Completion Rates This Summer
By EdFund Staff / August 21, 2024
A $72,000 grant from the Education Credit Management Corporation Foundation (ECMC) aims to remove barriers in the financial aid application...
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Camp Achieve Completes its 10th Year of Curbing Summer Learning Loss
By EdFund Staff / August 16, 2024
A summer camp made possible by a decade-long partnership between the City of Richmond, West Contra Costa Unified School District...
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Education Credit Management Corporation Foundation Grant Aims to Boost Financial Aid Completion Rates this Summer
By EdFund Staff / August 1, 2024
A $72,000 grant from the Education Credit Management Corporation Foundation (ECMC) aims to remove barriers in the financial aid application...
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Ed Fund announces new executive director
By EdFund Staff / January 4, 2023
The West Contra Costa Public Education Fund is pleased to announce the selection of Robert Bunce as the organization's new...
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Youth Code Now triples number of Black and Latino students learning STEM
By EdFund Staff / November 11, 2022
School days were difficult for Susana Romero, who was 11 when her family left El Salvador and settled in Richmond....
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About 100 players to compete at Richmond chess festival, as more kids take up game
By EdFund Staff / October 7, 2022
On a Sunday afternoon in late September, TC Ball entered Richmond’s Multicultural Bookstore with a cart full of kings, queens,...
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17 STUDENTS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS BY THE WEST CONTRA COSTA PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
By EdFund Staff / July 15, 2022
The West Contra Costa Public Education Fund (Ed Fund) has announced the winners of their scholarships for the 2021-2022 school...
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