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On 11 July 2023, the Academy Award–winning actor and the UCLA Lab School, located on the UCLA campus, announced the Leonardo DiCaprio Scholarship Fund and a climate education programme for pupils from pre-K through sixth grade, both launching ahead of the 2023–24 school year. Around 40% of families at the school require financial assistance. School leaders said it is therefore important for the student body to reflect the ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic diversity of California, and that the scholarship fund will help ensure this diversity.
The fund will help provide financial aid to students in need, while the Climate Justice Education Program will teach students how to protect the planet through hands-on learning, according to the UCLA Newsroom. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said the university was honoured to partner with DiCaprio in support of the Lab School. He also said the university was deeply grateful to DiCaprio for giving back to the school.
Leonardo DiCaprio has returned to the school where he studied as a child, announcing scholarships and a climate education programme for its students. The fund will help provide financial aid to students in need. The school serves as a research and innovation site for elementary education. He described expanding access to high-quality education and helping young people recognise the need to protect the planet as critical goals for the institution. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.