PEF’s annual donor report, The Patron, highlights PEF grants and funding initiatives, while recognizing the contributions of PEF supporters and donors whose generosity makes it all possible.
First published in 1991, The Patron was published twice a year — in the Fall and Spring. The first Patron featured how PEF funding helped support “low-enrollment classes”. At the time, PHS had a historically low enrollment of only 540 students (due to a dip in birthrates in the first half of the 1970s). PEF stepped in to help fund electives like foreign language and music to ensure the classes would still be available in the late 90s when class sizes were expected to return to the 750 range.
PEF also worked to ensure that at the elementary level, the classroom ratio of children to adults remained low by funding instructional aides when State funds were reduced.
PEF collaborates with PUSD to help support community engagement, and helps to produce The Spotlight, a review of PUSD initiatives, curriculum and budget. Likewise PEF partnered with Associated Parent Clubs of Piedmont to help publish a 2014 Patron donor report as well. (In the spring of 2015 APCP and PEF formally merged, and now function as a single entity, with completely conjoined operations.)
