Geoff Maleman

Did you know that 45 percent of Culver City Unified School District students receive free or reduced price lunches at their schools every day? For many, this vital resource includes free breakfast. In some circumstances, healthy, reliable meals on the weekends are not a guarantee. Since 2013, the School District’s Backpacks for Kids program has been serving students at all District school sites, totaling more than 10,000 meals to students throughout the year.

A wide range of School District projects – at 10 sites -- will be funded by proceeds from yesterday’s lopsided school bond victory for Measure CC, and they include:

[img]2589|right|||no_popup[/img]Internationally known muralist and street artist Fintan Magee, whose larger-than-life work has graced walls from Colombia to Denmark to Australia, will soon be putting his handiwork up on the side of a Culver City building at Lindblade and Sepulveda. Mr. Magee will spend five days painting the mural, after which he will move to Culver City High School, where he will paint a second mural on the campus and work mentoring students from the school’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts as they paint their own mural. He will teach ...

Lin Howe Elementary School is among 106 California schools selected for the Title I Academic Achievement Award. “This award is a testament to the hard work of our entire Linwood Viking team, our teachers, administrators, students and their parents,” said Supt. Dave LaRose. “All of them work cooperatively to ensure every child succeeds."

With the Measure CC school repairs bond coming upon the June 3 ballot, want to learn more about the School District’s facility needs? Interested in finding out where money from the proposed Measure CC bond would go? Want to get a closer look at the improvements the District is planning?

From environmentalists to business leaders and employee groups, it seems as though many influential group in the area are lining up behind Mayor Jeff Cooper’s re-election bid. In the last few weeks, Mr. Cooper has won the support of ...

Working with the Chamber of Commerce and other key stakeholders throughout the business and education community, the School District has developed the Culver City Compact – a signed document that outlines the community’s commitment and vision for a bright educational future. “This document,” said Supt. Dave LaRose, “turns the phrase ‘Success for All Takes Us All’ into ...

The site for Mayor Jeff Cooper’s major fundraising event of the season last weekend was carefully chosen. When Mr. Cooper, seeking election for a second City Council term on April 8, thanked 200 supporters for coming out last Saturday, it was not as if they just had been passing by the spectacular Pterodactyl Building in the Hayden Tract.

Cooper Komatsu stood tall and confidently spelled the word a-p-p-r-e-h-e-n-s-i-o-n to take home the ninth annual School District Spelling Bee title on Monday evening at Lin Howe Elementary. The sixth-grader from the Middle School finished atop 23 other spellers, four from each of the District’s five elementary schools and the City Middle School competed.

One day after Gary Abrams, a hardy challenger in the past for the School Board, pulled papers for a City Council election, Mayor Jeff Cooper this morning officially filed his re-election papers at City Hall and launched his...