2011-2012 School Grants

The Eureka Schools Foundation Board of Directors voted at the June board meeting to award $554,000 to the Eureka Union School District.

  • $500,000 will go to pay for librarians and technologists at all seven schools, as well as music, band and choir for grades 4-8, and athletics in grades 6-8.
  • $30,000 will go to Summer Institute. This money will pay for summer programs for district teachers so when they return to school in August they are even better prepared to teach your children.
  • $24,000 will go to Viva Espanol. This money will be used to subsidize the ESF Spanish language program that last year served 400 students in grades K-8!

Core Programming
ESF has designated $500,000 to be spent on the following core programs. Any shortfall between the amounts allocated and the actual cost of the program will be made up through reductions in the district's reserves.
 

Classroom Music Education
Before and After School Band and Choir
Date grant to take effect: August 2011-June 2010
Schools Benefited: Excelsior and Ridgeview Elementary Schools
Students Benefited: All 4th-6th students
Grant Description: ESF funds music teachers for two schools.
 

Music Accompanists

  
Date grant to take effect: August 2011-June 2012
Schools benefited: Excelsior and Ridgeview Elementary Schools.
Cavitt and Olympus Junior High Schools
Students benefited: All 4th-6th grade students and 7th and 8th grade students
Grant description: ESF funds music accompanists at four schools.
 

Libraries

  
Date grant to take effect: August 2011-June 2012
Schools benefited: Greenhills, Excelsior, Maidu, Oakhills and Ridgeview Elementary Schools.
Cavitt and Olympus Junior High Schools.
Students benefited: All K-8th grade students
Grant description: ESF funds library clerks at seven schools.
   

Athletics

  
Date grant to take effect: August 2011-June 2012
Schools benefited: Cavitt and Olympus Junior High Schools
Students benefited: All 7th and 8th grade students
Grant description: ESF helps fund the sport coach stipends at both junior high schools.
 

Technology Staff

  
Date grant to take effect: August 2011-June 2012
Schools benefited: Greenhills, Excelsior, Maidu, Oakhills and Ridgeview Elementary Schools. Cavitt and Olympus Junior High Schools.
Students benefited: All K-8th grade students
Grant description: ESF helps to fund the technology staff for seven schools.
   
 

Spanish Language Program
Date grant to take effect: August 2011-May 2012
Schools benefited: Greenhills, Excelsior, Maidu, Oakhills and Ridgeview Elementary Schools.
Cavitt and Olympus Junior High Schools.
Students benefited: K-8th grades
Grant description: ESF, in conjunction with parent fees, fund the before and after-school Spanish language program and Spanish teachers at all seven schools.
 

Viva Espanol and Summer Institute Funding
In addition to the $500,000 specified above, ESF has allocated $30,000 that was used to pay for the 2011 summer institute and $24,000 towards the Viva Espanol Program.
 

Challange 21 - Teacher Excellence
Date grate to take effect: June-August 2011
Schools benefited: Greenhills, Excelsior, Maidu, Oakhills and Ridgeview Elementary Schools. Cavitt and Olympus Junior High Schools.
Students benefited: All K-8th grade students
Grant description: A comprehensive teaching institute for the EUSD teachers where they learned new instructional practices to help students be more successful in the classroom and also about classroom technology tools that enhance inquiry-based learning. One of the programs focused on GATE ("Gifted and Talented Education") certification.