The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools and Google are pleased to offer an exciting grant opportunity to continue the mission of providing support to Partnership teachers and student education. Apply by 5 PM on January 31, 2012!

The $4 billion philanthropists spend annually on public education is less than 1 percent of the $500 billion America spends on public schools each year. The thousands of committed reformers sent into schools or onto school boards pale in number to the millions of long employed and sometimes entrenched systems in place.

Thank you for the work you have done this year to provide your students with the care, support and education they need to pursue their dreams. In the midst of a very difficult year in which the State budget crisis expanded, the electorate choose not to pass a parcel tax to fund your schools, and attacks on public schools pressed on in the media, you have continued to get up each morning, come to school each day and put your hearts and energy into the students that you serve.  You are truly inspiring and we are proud to partner with you!  Your students and the broader society is lucky to have you.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Avatar/Earth Day event last Thursday. Your students were incrdible. They behaved extremely well throughout the entire day. Everyone should be very proud. It was really a wonderful experience to be part of. 5,000 students from the Partnership Schools at the Nokia theatre watching Avatar and learning about how they can be stewards of our environment was truely special.