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Your gifts are making a big difference for our students, our schools, and our community!

The Foundation was formed to address inadequate public school funding, to promote academic excellence as a core community value, to make our schools a magnet for families and businesses relocating to the area, and to ultimately provide the top quality education our students need to thrive in a 21st century workforce.

Creating an environment that values and promotes student achievement cannot be the sole responsibility of educators, parents, and the schools. It requires the concerted effort of the entire community.

The Buckeye Education Foundation is grateful for the tremendous support we’ve received during our first few years from our neighbors, school parents, the many local businesses, and numerous charitable organizations. We look forward to continuing to work with all of you to make educational excellence a cornerstone of our community.

With your help, we are well on our way to achieving these goals, but there is still more to do!

Where You Made a Difference This Year

2014-2015 Programs

The Buckeye Education Foundation funds district-wide programs that are not funded elsewhere.

This year the Buckeye Education Foundation is contributing over $150,000 of community donated funds toward the following:

Library Aide: Provides additional library hours for every student in every school in the district beyond what the district can afford. Specifically trained librarians are a luxury many schools in California now go without.
Certificated PE Instructor: Provides 9 additional days of certificated PE instruction for every student in grades 1-5. This not only delivers better PE for the students it also gives classroom teachers more time to concentrate on academics because they are not spending time planning for and teaching PE (as is common in most districts). Many districts without certificated PE instruction are skipping PE altogether!
Full-time EdTech Coach: The EdTech Coach works with teachers on a daily basis to help facilitate the use of the new Chromebooks, Google Apps for Educators, and other EdTech tools being introduced to the classrooms.
EdTech Teacher Training: The Foundation has committed $20,000 toward EdTech teacher training outside of normal school work hours. This is a combination of group training to take place locally and mini-grants for teachers traveling to EdTech Conferences where the expense is not covered by the district. Getting the technology into the classroom is one thing, having teachers that know what to do with it is something completely different.
The Foundation also paid to complete the wireless networking at every campus that was necessary before the Tech rollout could begin in any substantial way.

SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING IS CRITICAL!

Good schools mean good communities, higher property values, and lower crime rates. We live in an exceptional area filled with exceptional people. Working together we can continue to offer the children in our community the exceptional educational opportunities that they deserve!

Our schools are very good. Together, we can make them even better!

In the 2014-15 school year, your donations to the Foundation allowed us to grant over $150,000 to fund certified PE, Library, Classroom Technology staffing to the benefit of every child in the district.

The Foundation’s Tech Up! initiative funded the completion of wireless networking to reach every student in every classroom, training for our EdTech teachers, and a full-time Education Technology Coach to support our teachers on a daily basis..

THE PROGRAMS WE FUND ARE APPLIED EQUITABLY ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND ARE PROGRAMS THAT MUST BE FUNDED AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL.

Thank you to all our volunteers and donors who are doing so much to make our schools the best they can be!

ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

The Buckeye Education Foundation is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit collaboration of volunteer parents, educators and community members focused on providing supplemental funding to the six elementary schools and two middle schools within the Buckeye Union School District in El Dorado County, California.

The district-wide Foundation was formed in 2009 to address inadequate funding for schools at the state level and to promote academic excellence as a core value of our community.

The Foundation is 100% volunteer staffed. The generous donations of volunteer time and community giving allows the Foundation to meet its goal of helping the 4,700 students in our Buckeye public schools receive the highest quality education possible.

You may view the Foundation’s IRS 990 Tax Forms HERE

Tax ID # 27-1254269

UPCOMING BOARD MEETING

Monthly Board Meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday, of each month at 7:00pm in the new district office at the Valley View School site in Blackstone, EDH.

We invite your participation!

The foundation is expanding it’s Committees and Board of Directors. All interested applicants are encouraged to inquire to info@buckeyefoundation.org and/or attend our meetings to learn how your skills can make a difference!

Moving Our Classrooms into the 21st Century

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Your gifts are making a big difference for our students, our schools, and our community!

Creating an environment that values and promotes student achievement cannot be the sole responsibility of educators, parents, and the schools. It requires the concerted effort of the entire community.

With your help, we are well on our way to achieving these goals, but there is still more to do!

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You are Putting Our Schools at the Top of the Heap!

2014-2015 Programs

Thank you to those who have already donated this past school year!

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SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING IS CRITICAL!

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