Dear friends and partners, 

Rain or shine, LAUSD is hard at work making progress for our school communities! Yesterday, I joined students, parents, and staff at Stanley Mosk Elementary to announce a $100,000 grant for a campus greening project. This is one of several investments totaling nearly $2 million that my office is awarding to provide campus gardens, green spaces, trees, and more for our school communities most in need of green space.

Last week we also celebrated the completion of Venice High’s $162 million campus modernization! I was thrilled to cut the ribbon on new state-of-the-art classrooms, athletic facilities, outdoor spaces, and more to create a modern learning environment on this iconic campus. With over 100 of our schools now over 100 years old, the work continues on the herculean task of modernizing all of our learning environments to support all students.

Finally, this week we celebrated Read Across America, celebrating the work our schools do to instill a joy of reading and make sure all students learn to read and so they can read to learn and thrive in the world. 

Onward,