Last Friday’s last-ditch bargaining session between the Long Beach Unified School District and the Teachers Association of Long Beach didn’t see the two sides come to an agreement on compensation or the district’s proposal to add four pupil-free days to the school year.
Cabrillo High School will host the showcase in its auditorium on Friday at 7 p.m.
“Chicago,” which showed last weekend, was just the start of drama season. Millikan will be putting on “The Addams Family – A New Musical Comedy” tonight and this weekend. Cabrillo will stage “Animal Farm” on April 27 and 28, among other spring performances on the schedule.
The Long Beach Unified School District employs more people than any other business in this city, and the district is trying to add even more employees to its ranks.
The survey is part of the district’s participation in the California Office to Reform Education partnership, which comprises several of the state’s largest school districts.
Plans are in the works for the district to bring back its week-long outdoor learning expedition for fifth graders next school year, with the location changed to the YMCA’s Camp Oakes near Big Bear, off State Route 38.
During Tuesday’s meeting, the board swore in a new member, Area 1 representative Maria Isabel López, and elected Diana Craighead as president of the board for the next year. Board member Doug Otto will serve as vice president for the upcoming year.
Megan Kerr is among the newly elected City Council members who will be sworn into office tonight, when she will officially begin her new role representing Long Beach’s 5th District. But before taking over that seat, Kerr had to bid farewell to her place on Long Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education.
The school in the El Dorado Park neighborhood was one of 297 nationwide to receive the award, the U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced Friday.
Martha Alba-Gonzalez, who teaches at the LBUSD’s Chavez Elementary School near Downtown, is among the 23 honorees.
