District reader John B offers this response to the August 17 Press-Telegram story “Districts Tackle Enrollment Drop”:
I’m reading that almost every local school district, including LBUSD, has been experiencing ‘early grade’ enrollment decreases and anticipates more such drops. But I didn’t see anything in the story about *why* this is happening.
No explanation was offered in [...]

From the District mailbox:
For those of you with whom I have been lax in recent communication, CityMuse is my non-profit, after-school program that teaches music to elementary kids Grades 2-5 in Long Beach.  The program is based on scientific research–and my personal experiences teaching in LA–that show how children exposed to quality music programs score [...]

LB vocational school goes down in bankruptcy filing
Six weeks ago, the P-T’s Joe Segura reported the closure of a Long Beach helicopter school that stranded 150 students. The bankruptcy crash-landing of Silver State Helicopters (I clicked on the company’s website, but damn if I could open it) made headlines in Nevada (where the company is [...]

The Long Beach Police Department faces a budget crisis that threatens to reduce critical services, and Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Shipske chooses this moment to propose spending more money on DARE, the bogus anti-drug education program aimed at school kids. Shipske proposed Tuesday to fund the program with a tax on all the things [...]