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School Board Member Laura Capps’ efforts to help Santa Barbara schools reduce their carbon footprint have made her a finalist in the 2019 New Ideas Challenge – a competition among rising and innovative state and [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Jeffrey Milem to its Board of Directors. Milem is the Dean and a Professor at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. Prior to this position, [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Larry Harter to its Board of Directors. Harter serves as President of Pueblo Radiology and California Managed Imaging.  He also serves on the executive committee of the California Radiology [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Jon Clark to its Board of Directors. Through his position as President of the James S. Bower Foundation, Clark has shown his dedication to supporting community organizations that promote [...]

Utilizing the CrisisGo emergency communication platform, Santa Barbara Unified School District campuses participated in the Great ShakeOut drill on Thursday, joining millions of people across the world in practicing earthquake safety protocols. Santa Barbara schools [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation announced that more than $16,000 and 60 musical instruments were collected at its annual Keep the Beat Radiothon with 99.9 KTYD on October 10 and 11. During the two-day radio event, [...]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation will join 99.9 KTYD Morning Mojo’s Lin Aubuchon and Bill Pesso on Oct. 10-11 for the Keep the Beat Radiothon to raise funds and instrument donations for Santa Barbara Unified School [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA, September 19, 2019 –Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Tisha Ford to its Board of Directors. After living in Santa Barbara for over 30 years, Ford is an active member of the [...]

Congratulations are in order for three Santa Barbara Unified School District high school seniors who have been selected as National Merit Scholar Semifinalists. Rhea Kommerell and Marina Suh of Dos Pueblos High School, along with [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA, September 12, 2019 – Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Joanna Pascoe to its Board of Directors as Santa Barbara Unified School District teacher representative. Pascoe is an alumnus of Azusa Pacific [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA, September 6, 2019 –Santa Barbara Education Foundation recently elected Kelly Fresch to its Board of Directors as Santa Barbara Unified School District principal representative. Fresch stepped into the role of principal at [...]

Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is paramount when it comes to navigating a school crisis. Santa Barbara Unified School District will soon begin training teams of staff and [...]

Santa Barbara school officials have taken to heart the call to action from state education leaders to join them on the road to a multilingual California. The Global California 2030 initiative challenges state schools to develop opportunities for [...]

Four Santa Barbara Unified School district alumni - all recent local college graduates - are inaugurating an innovative new program that funds teacher training at UCSB for positions in Santa Barbara-area classrooms. Alejandrina and Maria [...]