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Nancy Wride (Editor) May 21, 2013 at 11:54 am
Sixty PLUS the fire department members. Thanks for the specific number, Will!
Firefighter Will Nash May 20, 2013 at 09:20 am
"More than 60 people plus members of the Long Beach Fire Department will share their careers…Read More with the 900 students"
This needs to be corrected. The 60 people were not all Fire Dept members, but a cross section of various occupations. The LBFD was there, but only 5 members participated in the career day
donna cohen April 20, 2013 at 11:05 pm
This is great news! Alexander did not have the students best interest at heart. Read about some of…Read More the horrible and corrupt things he did during his tenure at CSULB Thug The Book written by a full tenured professor currently teaching at CSULB http://thugthebook.blogspot.com Read and share. Time to clean up the corruption in the California State University System.
Nancy Wride (Editor) March 26, 2013 at 05:14 pm
Impressive, Linda! Where are you growing them if not in soil?
Linda Merrill March 26, 2013 at 02:59 pm
Children that plant a garden will try eating more veggies! I have the most beautiful garden this…Read More year! I am growing several varieties of lettuce tomatoes peppers snap peas cilantro oregano sage dill rosemary rosemary spinach and kale in a space no larger than 36" diameter. No soil or pesticides. I have so many spices I freeze some in a ice cube try with olive oil.
Michele Zimmerman March 25, 2013 at 08:27 pm
It's ashamed that the district is not putting the needs of the students first and foremost. Studies…Read More show that high schoolers are much more effective with a later start time. I am disappointed in the backing of an early start time.
Nancy Wride (Editor) March 22, 2013 at 09:49 pm
This proposal was to save nearly $1 million in transportation costs that would otherwise be spent.…Read More What was behind your school district's decision?
chris fell March 22, 2013 at 09:44 pm
as a parent from ATL Ga I would like to know what the school schedule is for the High Schools .. We…Read More start our school schedule at the 1st week of AUGUST which is rediculas being in the high 90s ,til last week of MAY..it was voted on by the school superintendent and his staff several yrs ago and will be in place for an unknown time.
Mike Ruehle March 19, 2013 at 07:05 am
Numbers you may not know. Long Beach State University President F. King Alexander has a BASE annual…Read More salary over $330,000, NOT including significant money received from foundations, and is also provided a car allowance and free mansion in College Park Estates valued at over $60,000 per year.
In the face of horrendous tuition increases over the past 5-years, Alexander refused last fall to comment when asked whether he would accept a 10% pay cut similar to what CSU's Chancellor accepted.
http://www.lbreport.com/news/nov12/csucomp.htm
Donna Burns April 28, 2013 at 03:34 am
tracey, don't you think these ppl should be smartening up and changing the way they live their…Read More lives ? how many zillions of ppl have died this same senseless death because there are ppl that run around and shoot each other up, over what ? and to top it, they bitch over the sentence they get ! not really sure what you mean by "it wasn't intended to harm everyone, or he didn't wake up that day thinking he would go shoot some people ?" all I'll say is I don't know or care WHEN the plan became firing into a crowd of high school kids coming out of a football game, but when it did that's when I stop feeling any compassion for the shooter, only disgust. whatever the courts give him, it still doesn't fix the problem, some kid in high school lost her life. for no reason...and she didn't choose to live such a retarded, pathetic life and shouldn't have died because those ppl do
tracey April 25, 2013 at 04:18 pm
It wasnt intended to harm everyone the guys , pulled out a gun first .. they were idiots for trying…Read More to do that in the first place , he didnt leave his house thinking ohh im bout to go shoot some kids up at my old highschool .. he wanted to go to the game he lives a different lifestlye that nobody would understand ! He seen he was being threatned and reacted that bullet was not intended to hurt her.. either way someone wouldve gotten hurt , its crazy to me how they are reacting to this because she was a honor student and wilson but people die everyday by mistake or on purpose and dont get the same attention like she did or the sentencing like he did.. im very sad for the parents loss but the media hypes all of you guys up.. you werent there you have no idea how it went down.. your just basically going off gossip , i think they should give him 15 to 20 years.. 155 is too much..
Donna Burns April 14, 2013 at 08:01 pm
Cali Fleur says:
" I believe the sentence is particularly harsh because he didn't intend to…Read More harm her"
How can you think he didn't intend to harm her, this guy fired into a crowd of people, obviously he intended to harm all of them !!!!!
Nancy Wride (Editor) March 15, 2013 at 05:21 am
I love Lowell. Awesome school community. Admire the former and current principals. Far more…Read More importantly, of the 76 articles with Lowell mentioned, they're positive stories. So yeah, I cop to a bias - in favor of Lowell :D
--Former Lowell principal at her new award-winning school:
http://patch.com/A-sFpF).
--Besides serving on the cabinet with teachers and other parents, I worked through Lowell's PTA to help create from scratch a popular school program which we cover yearly with full disclosure that I am biased about it's magic: http://patch.com/A-d2bb
--We can't forget the carnival, of course!: http://patch.com/A-hYR8
Bike programs: http://patch.com/A-d1lq
--Summer Camp Fair, which I've participated in: http://patch.com/A-g1lx
And Belmont Shore Patch launched in Dec. 2010 with this lovely story and photos by a then-Lowell parent: http://patch.com/A-c5vr
--We have written two stories just this year on the merchants program, and have covered it positively three years now. http://patch.com/A-qpzc
--We have several Lowell parents blogging, a former Lowell student who is now at UC Berkeley. Here is our Mom's Talk weekly column during 2011 that featured current or former Lowell parents. http://patch.com/A-fsyJ
That's just a quick sampling. Anyone can search the site themselves :D
Ted March 15, 2013 at 03:29 am
Wow a positive article about Lowell from Nancy Wride! Finally, a glimmer of balanced reporting from…Read More Nancy, rather than just going for the typical "I have a grudge against the school because of a personal matter that happened years ago between the school and me." Bravo, Nancy, and here's to more balanced reporting on the great things happening at Lowell with staff, families and students!
Yes, Merchant Mentor Day brought stellar students, hard working teachers and our community partners together to enrich the lives of our future leaders. Well done, Lowell community!
Nancy Wride (Editor) March 14, 2013 at 11:16 pm
Keep posting those photos! Love this program and think it is a perfect example of a relatively…Read More simple and uncomplicated idea that shows what a community can offer without too much hassle on each individual. The experience is one of the most memorable of all for grade schoolers - and businesses.
John B. Greet March 26, 2013 at 01:19 pm
In my view, the Fed should not be involved in public education funding at all. If the States desire…Read More to set collective academic standards for the nation and ensconce those in a federal law, fine, but doing so does *not* require the existence of a federal Department of Education that has an annual budget of $77.4 BILLION dollars.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/factsheet_department_education
States should not have to send a single penny of their own education dollars to be laundered and re-distributed through D.C.
Because States agree to do so, however, they give the Fed a level of authority, power, and control over their own State-level public education programs that cannot be found authorized *anywhere* in the U.S. Constitution.
There are very good reasons that the founders intended the federal government to remain small and very tightly controlled. One of them has to do with keeping government as close to the people as possible, so the people can better monitor and control it. Local governments are closest to the people. State government are less so but can still be manageable in most cases.
The federal government, by contrast, has become this ponderous, corpulent, inefficient, and ineffective behemoth that no one seems able to effectively monitor or control anymore. Some elected federal officials once proposed the creation of a federal Department of Education and no one even seemed to ask if the constitution authorized such a thing. It does not.
John B. Greet March 1, 2013 at 04:58 pm
"'The current federal accountability bar has been too low and too narrowly focused for too…Read More long,' said LBUSD Superintendent Christopher J. Steinhauser."
Generally speaking, when a performance bar is set "too low", those expected to meet it have little or no trouble doing so. Why has this not been the case for LBUSD?
If this bar is truly "too low" why had LBUSD had such a difficult time reaching it? If true:
-Why is LBUSD on Year 3 (4th straight year) of mandated program improvement status (PI), as a school district?
-Why are *100%* of LBUSD's title 1 middle schools currently in PI status, and why are eight of 11 of them in Year 5 (6th straight year)?
The federal accounability bar is "too low"? Really?
http://ayp.cde.ca.gov/reports/Acnt2012/2012AYPDst.aspx?allcds=1964725
Mike Ruehle March 2, 2013 at 10:47 pm
All that means is more college buildings will continue to be built with taxpayers money while more…Read More education programs will be cut. We will have huge campuses paid for by taxpayers with no students in attendance. Considering California's adult population with a high school diploma or higher is already ranked 3rd lowest in the US, maybe this will help California to achieve the #1 lowest ranking.
http://247wallst.com/2013/02/28/americas-happiest-and-most-miserable-states/4/
John B. Greet March 1, 2013 at 05:48 pm
By virtue of sequestration, the President has almost complete discretion on what will be cut and…Read More from where in the federal budget.
There is so much fraud, waste, duplication, and abuse *proven* to exist throughout the federal budget. Rather than try to address *any* of that, he and his willing dupes in Congress are threatening cuts to some very essential programs and services. The President's sequestration priorities appear to be terribly skewed.
While the President happily spent $1 million in public funds for his Tiger Woods golf weekend, this same amount could have prevented as many as 341 federal employees from being furloughed.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/senator-obamas-golf-weekend-tiger-cost-much-341-federal-workers-furloughed_704915.html
And all of this over cuts (**in the rate of growth**) that amount to 0.03% of our GDP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8cKKMQSIhY&feature=youtu.be
Luis March 1, 2013 at 11:44 am
Thank you Representative Boehner, afterall who needs and educated populace?
Nancy Wride (Editor) February 7, 2013 at 07:56 pm
Way to go Rogers' community and Belmont Shore diners. Anyone from other parts of Long Beach dine…Read More Monday night? (We had sausage pizza, cranberry walnut salad, way too much food but good lunch leftovers).
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