Saving our local schools in Calabasas

By: Karen Lee

Roughly $200,000 in donations is needed to rescind 80 percent of notices of potential layoff issued for the Las Virgenes School district. That’s why about 15 volunteer parents spent Tuesday night calling families throughout the Las Virgenes Unified School District, asking for donations to help 51 teachers and counselors keep their jobs.

Phone banks were set up at our own offices Ewing & Associates Sotheby’s International Realty in Calabasas and the Farmers Insurance in Agoura Hills, and will continue from the same locations through this Thursday.

The fundraising campaign, dubbed Save Our Schools, kicked off in February and has so far raised $291,000, said Karen Kimmel, the district’s chief business official.

Reaching Save Our Schools’ initial goal of $1 million would help all of those employees stay on staff, Kimmel said.

Keep up the hard work! Let’s make this happen.

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