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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 [...]

Gearing up for the new school year, Santa Barbara and Goleta educators received an inspirational presentation from UCLA Professor of Education Dr. Pedro Noguera, a critically acclaimed scholar and speaker on race, equity and education. [...]

As we prepare to launch the 2019-2020 school year, we’d like to share an important message with our education community. SB Unified’s mission is to prepare students for a world that has yet to be [...]

By Cassie Lancaster Well-Endowed Universities Are Eager to Admit and Fund Promising Students Something is missing from our conversation about college access and affordability for Santa Barbara students. Many colleges are more than willing — [...]

As the visionary undertaking of a $39 million renovation of Santa Barbara High School’s Peabody stadium heads toward completion, Dons across the community look forward to 21st century athletic facilities that will finally match the [...]

Santa Barbara Junior High School, 721 E. Cota Street 7/17/19 - 7/20/19 In a continued effort to make our campuses safe, the Santa Barbara Unified School District is cooperating with local emergency response agencies looking [...]

Santa Barbara, Calif. - The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education has appointed a new Public Information Officer, longtime local education writer and award-winning journalist Camie Barnwell. Barnwell - who begins her duties [...]

By Marissa Garcia, Santa Barbara Education Foundation According to Wikipedia, a secret ingredient is sometimes the component that “makes a noticeable difference in the way a product performs, looks or tastes.” For some students in [...]