DJUSD Receives $9 Million in Facilities Grant Funds to Improve Career Technical Education Facilities at Da Vinci Charter Academy and Davis Senior High School
Posted on 10/08/2020
October 8, 2020

Davis, California --- Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) is proud to announce that the 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.

These four grants were highly competitive and required an enormous amount of preparation and support from the community. Associate Superintendent of Instructional Services Rody Boonchouy stated, “We are grateful for the dozens of letters of support from local businesses, parents, and advocates in our community. We are also appreciative of the hard work of our CTE staff who have helped develop a vision for each of these CTE programs and a concept for 21st century facilities to house these programs.”

Superintendent John Bowes added, “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. This grant award is one of the largest in the DJUSD’s history and provides a significant boost for our Career Technical Education program.”

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.

Information and updates on these projects are available at www.djusd.net/bond. For more information about DJUSD’s CTE pathways, please visit our CTE website at https://www.djusd.net/instruction/programs/career_tech_education.