After reaching unprecedented highs in recent days, the Long Beach Health Department reported three straight days of declines in key metrics measuring how quickly the coronavirus is spreading.
The union representing employees like custodians, maintenance staff and nutrition workers says many of its members make minimum wage and deserve a larger raise.
The tests arrived too late to screen kids before they returned from winter break, so the LBUSD nows recommends parents use them when they’re notified of possible exposures.
Britt Banks saved up $10,000 to fund “Blue Laces,” a short film set in North Long Beach that tells the story of young Black women growing up in the city. Banks wrote, directed and shot the film.
Despite the challenges of filling those vacancies, Eftychiou said there are no plans to close schools.
On Monday, the LBUSD had 369 requests for a substitute teacher, a little more than triple what they’d normally get on the Monday after winter break, an LBUSD spokesperson said.
“We dropped our kids off today and I had a sinking feeling that I’m throwing my kiddos into some kind of a fire,” one parent said.
Bryant has said she’d “set everything in Long Beach” if her publishers let her, and it’s a treat for local readers to have the city featured in the rising author’s literary world.
The two vacant buildings at 999 Atlantic Ave. and 4310 Long Beach Blvd. are among the seven properties the district has designated “surplus” land.
Long Beach Unified expects to rely heavily on its reserves in the next few years as declining enrollment and lower attendance hurt its bottom line.
