DJUSD Receives $9 Million in Facilities Grant Funds to Improve CTE Facilities
Posted on 10/08/2020
DJUSD Receives $9 Million in Facilities Grant Funds to Improve CTE Facilities
We are proud to announce that Davis Joint Unified School District has received $9 million in facilities grant funds from the State of California to improve Career Technical Education facilities at Da Vinci High School for Computer Science, including pathways in Digital Arts and Software and System Development, and at Davis Senior High School for the Robotics, Automotive, and Agriculture programs. We would like to thank our local businesses, parents, and advocates in our community for dozens of letters in support, as well as thank our incredible CTE staff who have helped develop a vision for our CTE programs and facilities.

The timing of this award could not be better. These grants come to us just one year after DJUSD’s largest expansion of CTE program offerings to 14 unique career pathways, across six different industry sectors, with each pathway specially designed to increase student engagement and college/career preparedness.

Each of the CTE Facilities Grants required a 1:1 funding match, which DJUSD is able to support through the recent passage of Measure M ($150 million) approved by Davis voters in 2018 and an additional $75 million in other funding. The Davis Senior High CTE grant projects related to the Robotics, Agriculture and Automotive pathways are in an early stage of planning and will be part of the many exciting facility improvements at the Davis Senior High campus. Da Vinci Charter High School’s new CTE grant facilities include a new STEM lab for Computer Science. This is now part of the Tech Hub Bond project on that campus, with construction anticipated as early as Summer 2021. Please watch for more updates on these projects in our regular DJUSD Bond Program newsletter. For more information about DJUSD’s CTE pathways, please visit our CTE website.