Schools in Venice, CA

“I am blown away by how wonderful the Mandarin Immersion program is at our school. My daughter has an IEP and Broadway has been nothing but supportive from day one. While I was waiting for her BII to be official, the principal granted my daughter her resource specialist to me for 5 months!!! Our school is outstanding because of the communication and efforts of parents and teachers. We raised $409,000 last year because our parents rock it. It feels like a private school. That being said, it requires parents to be highly involved with fundraising and volunteering. That's what funds all of our TAs and thensome. I thank my lucky stars every day my daughter attends this school.”

“What a beautiful, enriching, loving, adventurous, playful, creative, caring, nurturing, and multicultural school! The teachers, staff and community make this school a gem. Madame Joelle is an incredibly warm and generous woman and it has been an honor to have our son attend Claire Fontaine. We signed up for Summer Camp and immediately saw that we had to get our son enrolled for pre-k. Best decision we have made for our son and family. Being a French and American family the language component and community were very appealing to us. We were able to find more French speaking friends for our son to connect with all the while hear and witness his language skills further develop. The varied classes and offerings at Claire Fontaine has me wishing I attended this school even as an adult. My son came home teaching me new meditation techniques and a lot more French. Highly recommend this school to the community. What a gift it is to have this school in our neighborhood!”

“We are starting our second year at Coeur d'Alene. I've been impressed by the close knit sense of community at this school. Principal Jenkins knows all the families and greets the children by name (which is impressive considering how many kids he has to remember)! The parents help out at the school when they can, either with time or money, and we are all happy to contribute to the education and health of our kids. It takes a village! Perhaps the best perk here is the free play time for the kids. When you drop off your child in the morning, she can run and play with her friends on the playground for a few minutes before the bell rings. Parents are chatting, kids are getting the wiggles out, teachers are preparing for the day. They have several recess breaks during the day, several vegetable and flower gardens to tend to, a butterfly garden, a nice library to visit, and they still have PE and music classes. My hope is that our tax money will someday go back to the public schools instead of being diluted by charter schools. Our public schools would be even more successful, and therefore our children more successful, if the financial resources were available to pay for teachers aids, maintenance staff, equipment, and manpower to decrease class sizes. I believe it is better to have superlative, well funded public schools rather than a multitude of mediocre partially funded public and charter schools. I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would say?”