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Volunteer with the Jacksonville Public Education Fund at the Jacksonville Children's Commission Summer Learning Day!

6/19/2015

This year, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund (JPEF) will be volunteering with the Jacksonville Children's Commission (JCC) in the efforts to make this year's Summer Learning Day a huge success.

City Council to decide whether more than 1,000 kids will get a chance to learn this summer

6/19/2015

With the recent spate of youth violence in our city, the Board of Directors of the Jacksonville Children’s Commission, with the support of Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti, has made an emergency request of City Council for funding to increase the number of children attending summer camps.

At their meeting on Tuesday, June 23, the Jacksonville City Council is expected to take up the measure. Taking this action would go a long way toward giving every child the opportunity to plug in, allowing children in need to get what they need to stay safe and keep learning this summer.

Keep reading to learn more — and find out what you can do.

Meet Scott Sowell, our Summer Teacher Fellow

6/17/2015

Scott Sowell, a proud graduate of Duval County Public Schools, has worked in science education for 20 years, and is currently a science teacher at Darnell-Cookman Middle-High School.

Elizabeth Feustel is summer learning at JPEF

6/15/2015

While at the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Elizabeth hopes to learn advocacy skills, and new research techniques. She's also excited to learn more about Jacksonville’s education community, and connect with local leaders in an impactful way.

Celebrating Bilingualism in DCPS

6/4/2015

The Dual Language Program is designed to prepare children to succeed in a culturally diverse world and a global economy through academic achievement and proficiency in a second language. The students who are part of this program receives 50% of their class instruction in Spanish and 50% in English.