“I spent much of the last month worried that a student could die in my classroom,” a special education teacher from Poly High School said about the LBUSD’s lack of preparation for September’s intense heat wave.
LBUSD assistant superintendent over elementary schools Brian Moskovitz said the enrollment bump has been welcome good news as the district comes out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With 20% of classes lacking central cooling systems, some parents have considered keeping their kids home or staging a walkout amid this week’s heat wave.
Longer kindergarten, later high school start times and a lot fewer masks: School looks different this year in Long Beach.
Jill Baker had been on a four-year contract that was due to expire in the 2024-25 school year. This extension adds another year to the end of that agreement.
LBUSD spokesperson Chris Eftychiou confirmed this week that the district will not require masks for students or employees to begin the school year.
The film chronicles his campaign to be elected “youth governor” of a model state government program the YMCA runs each year at the California Capitol.
This is the third time in the last 15 years that the district has asked voters to approve a bond measure, which the LBUSD says is needed to modernize campuses.
LBUSD enrollment remains steadily shrinking, with a longtime decline of 2% annually reaching 3% each of the last two years. Each percentage drop represents a loss of $7-8 million in funding from the state.
Even during the break, seven campuses will offer free lunches to all children aged 1 to 18 at no charge, with no documentation required.
