What is PPIE?
Pleasanton Partners in Education (PPIE) is an educational foundation, which raises funds and enables programs that support all 15 Pleasanton schools, 14,500 students and over 800 teachers and administrative staff to ensure high-quality education in the Pleasanton Unified School District in an equitable manner. The foundation works each year to align PPIE fundraising and distribution with PUSD and school priorities for needed supplemental staff and technology. We also work to increase the engagement of area families, business partners and community leaders in sustaining and growing the success of our excellent schools.
Why do we need an education foundation like PPIE?
PPIE is a non-profit education foundation supporting all Pleasanton public schools and students. After the 2008 economic crisis, the Pleasanton school district asked PPIE to raise additional funds to enable class size reduction. With great parental and corporate support, PPIE helped to keep class sizes relatively low in our elementary schools. Since then, two matters have further cut State government funding to Pleasanton: 1) In 2013, the State enacted the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which allocates more funds to low income schools and less to wealthier districts like ours, and 2) in 2015, the State mandated that local school districts contribute a greater share toward teacher and other staff pensions. The result is that our schools need community support more than ever to maintain our high quality Pleasanton schools. Thank you for your support!
