Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) is one of sixty-seven Californian school districts that will be receiving a grant to develop programs which will focus on “advanced learning opportunities,” according to the California Department of Education.
Of the $3.3M being dispersed statewide, LBUSD will receive two grants of $50K each, with one going to Wilson High School and the other to Poly High School.
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Wilson’s grant will support what LBUSD called a new dual immersion, English-Spanish program that, according to District officials, began this past fall with its first cohort of 9th graders.
“Essentially this program is a continuation of the popular dual immersion program that has been offered for years at Patrick Henry K-8 School—except now it’s being extended to the high school level,” said Chris Eftychiou of the LBUSD. “Eventually students in this four-year pathway will take culminating classes in translation that would specifically help to prepare the students for careers in the legal, educational and medical fields.”
Poly’s grant will be used for the school’s Poly Academy of Achievers and Leaders program in order to create a new pathway. Pathways are ways for students to achieve credit recovery in order to catch up with minimum credit requirements in order to graduate.
Other Los Angeles County districts receiving grants include Centinela Valley Union ($50K); Glendale Unified ($50K); Las Virgenes Unified ($50K); Los Angeles Unified ($400K); and Pasadena Unified ($100K).