Opinions
Dear Editor – CCMS Cheers CCEF
The Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) has provided invaluable support for Culver City Middle School (CCMS)!! Over the past few years, they have awarded our teachers with grants for computers, technology upgrades, and musical instruments, in addition to program support for English Learners, Empowering Youth in Language Arts Through Acting, and professional development conferences! CCEF [...]
Dear Editor – All for 1 Deserves Support
Dear Editor: As a parent of two middle schoolers I know personally the impact that the funds raised, and carefully distributed, by the Culver City Education Foundation have. As a school board member serving during the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, I know how important our local community has been to our schools, year after year in responding to our students’ needs in the [...]
Dear Editor – Sargent Salutes CCEF
The new academic year is upon us and students, teachers, staff and administrators share a sense of anticipation. Since this will be my final year teaching, it is especially poignant for me... looking back over many decades as a Culver City teacher, student (myself), parent of two kids who attended Culver City schools, and now looking forward to another generation of our family attending these [...]
Dear Editor- School Board Supports “All for 1″
CCUSD has been awarded and recognized in many ways over the years, even while facing year after year of crippling cuts to public education. Our schools have been able to maintain excellence in academics, the arts, athletics, etc. for a multitude of reasons. But the critical reason our students have soared is because they belong to a community that cares…a community that refuses to allow its [...]
Dear Editor – Board Member Favors CCEF
Many times over my long career at Culver City High School, I was aided in stimulating my students and improving my curriculum by funding from the Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF). The benefits of this excellently administered organization cannot be overstated; its focus is on students and ways to broaden and reinforce their learning experiences. As a school board member, I have seen the [...]
Dear Editor – CCEF and Test Scores
As a Trustee of the Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF), a retired educator, and a community member I know how much our Culver City students benefit from CCEF’s work. When I served as Principal at Farragut Elementary School, money from CCEF supported technology, math, science, the Arts (including music, dance, drama, and visual arts), and much more for the students in our school. Last [...]
Dear Editor – Getting Educated About Fracking
Dear Editor: On Tuesday, Aug. 21, Americancinematheque Theater in Santa Monica hosted a Fracking Awareness Night to inform the audience about hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking"), a controversial method of extracting hard-to-get gas and oil. There was high energy among the approximately 75 people who attended. The films Gasland and The Sky is Pink were screened and a panel discussion, organized [...]
Dear Editor – Fracking Links
Get ready to view some very informative links below. The links are to support points I share. Please scroll through to the bottom. If you want to cut to the chase, please contact California's Jerry Brown to petition for a Ban on Fracking govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php , and to sign the Clean Water Bill of Rights: www.takepart.com/lastcall/petition#.UBpefR8xn3c.twitter Please cut and paste [...]
Dear Editor – Thanks to the Council
Dear Editor, was the city council meeting. A report was presented by public works department concerning the vehicular traffic on Sawtelle Blvd. After the presentation Sunkist Park residents spoke about the subject matter. Sunkist Park residents were there in full force. All but three residents spoke of the need for traffic control on Sawtelle. Dave Stewart made an analogy of the video game [...]
Dear Editor – Fiesta Wow!
Dear Editor, I just had to write to you IN PRAISE of this year's FIESTA LA BALLONA'S PARTY IN THE PARK PROGRAM! Nineteen pages filled with information about this awesome event there's now no reason to say I didn't know about the [...]
