Foundation donates $135,000 to school district




SUPPORTING  EDUCATION—Las  Virgenes  Educational Foundation president Stuart Selter presents Las Virgenes Unified School District board member Dave Moorman with a $135,000 check for technology, salaries and teacher training.

SUPPORTING EDUCATION—Las Virgenes Educational Foundation president Stuart Selter presents Las Virgenes Unified School District board member Dave Moorman with a $135,000 check for technology, salaries and teacher training.


An infusion of funds from the Las Virgenes Educational Foundation (LVEF) will help ease some of the budget problems at the Las Virgenes Unified School District.

Stuart Selter, foundation president, presented the LVUSD Board of Education with a $135,000 check to shore up the district’s finances.

Superintendent Donald Zimring said the foundation has been “pinning us up at every point and helping to stick fingers in the dike when we are leaking.”

“The LVEF is becoming more and more not just a safety net, but a tremendous colleague and support for all of our kids in the school district,” Zimring said. He said Selter and the foundation were “truly one of our greatest supporters.”

Fifty thousand dollars was earmarked for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program.

“We believe the teacher in the classroom is the key to delivering quality education to students, and the bright young teachers hired each year by the district greatly benefit from this program,” Selter aid.

Calabasas and Agoura high schools had four sections of classes on the chopping block, but $60,000 from the foundation’s donation reinstated the programs.

The district’s ongoing technology upgrades were given $25,000.

“The beating of the technology heart sends the life blood of the district coursing throughout its structure,” Selter said. “It will assist all the people of the district at every level to work better, smarter, faster, and help to create a cohesive, well-run organization, (and) it will be an effective conduit for communication for teachers, administrators, students and parents.”

The donation comes with strings attached. Board members, teachers, administrators, parents and students must create an “education declaration of independence . . . a declaration that removes the shackles of the past; it tosses away the option of doing it the old way and does not allow a Band-Aid reaction to budget cuts,” Selter said.

He called for a new approach to solving repeated budget issues and asked that everybody claim a stake in public education “before bureaucracy and unions.”

Selter asked teachers, administrators, parents and students to create an education “declaration of independence.”

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