Vote ✅YES on Measure E March 5th


Across the state, school districts are making difficult financial decisions on how to meet the growing cost of student needs with less funding.


Culver City has the privilege to be able to avoid deeper financial cuts by passing a school bond, preserving general fund revenue for essential service and salaries. Help us meet our urgent facilities needs and give our students the schools they deserve.


Supporting our students by voting YES✅️ on Measure E means:

  • Capital improvements to all campuses, resulting in facilities that match @culvercityschools reputation of high quality education
  • Better school climate and safety
  • Maintaining property values by keeping Culver City a desired place to study, work, and live

Thank you for a successful Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Owned Business Night Market! The market was well attended by 100+ partners and 400+ guests. Please visit ccnightmarket.my.canva.site for a full summary, including photos and video of student-centered programming and over 29 businesses and organizations.

Betty Dragon: The Magic of Participatory Art

Betty Dragon: The Magic of Participatory Art, Concept by Irene Yu

Irene Yu is a belonging builder, connector, inventor, artist, educator, and cultural ambassador. Structural engineer by trade, Yu developed and implemented a concept that motivated community members to lead, organize, and participate in the Betty Dragon Project for Lunar New Year and is impacting over 6,000 Culver City community members to date.


In 2019, Irene Yu created Joan, a red and gold fabric body dragon for about 15 participants to use in their classroom celebration at Linwood E. Howe ​Elementary, whose mascot is the sea dragon. Since then, Joan’s body ​evolved to accommodate an entire class of students - the main feature of ​their all-school Lunar New Year Parade beginning in 2020. In 2024, Yu, ​now a parent at both Lin Howe and Culver City Middle School, wanted to ​include even more students in celebrating Lunar New Year. To achieve this goal, a collaborative ​participatory art project began. Yu developed a concept that included art from 4th and 5th graders from Culver City Unified School District’s five elementary schools with coordination facilitated by fellow parent Connie Wong. Over 1,000 students decorated ​donated comic book board from The Comic Bug, an Asian ​American owned Culver City small business. Yu ​then laser cut the boards into scale shapes to create Betty. Using a design that could be folded and collapsed like modular pieces, Yu assembled the scales onto lightweight webbing with a “backbone” of PVC pipe and hula-hoop ribs attached to an intricately carved cardboard head.


This ​collaborative project was paraded at each of the five Culver City Unified elementary schools and ​Culver City Middle School. Wong continued to liaison with each school site to schedule Betty’s appearances and recruit up to 30 adults to support assembly at each parade. We are so thankful to Yu, Wong, and hundreds of hands that have brought Betty to life and joy to all seven of our ​Lunar New Year parades. Betty concludes her 2024 tour on Friday, March 1st at La Ballona Elementary. After her last parade, we anticipate to display her at the Robert Frost Auditorium lobby where she will continue to delight guests.

Above: Culver City Kapwa Filipinx/a/o Community Happy Hearts Potluck February 18th, 2024

Happy Women's History Month! Did you know: Dr. Fe del Mundo began her 70+ years in medicine by studying at Harvard University. She made American history as the first female admitted to the University in 1936, at least 10 years before it officially admitted women. Returning to the occupied Philippines during WWII, she would revolutionize medical access & immunization, found a hospital & devise bamboo field incubators, among her many other achievements.

About Stephanie Loredo: Culver City Unified School District Governing Board Member, Stephanie Loredo, is the first Filipina American elected to citywide office on the Westside of Los Angeles. She organizes for local Culver City organizations as well as regional and statewide initiatives, serving as LA Regional Vice Chair, Filipino American Democratic Caucus of the CA State Democratic Party. An advocate for education, sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, Stephanie’s vision is to build a culture of care that empowers students, faculty, staff, and families to thrive in public schools.

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