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Bargaining resumes today between the two sides as they work to come to an agreement on a new contract.

Mona Rodriguez’s killing fueled a movement to transform Long Beach’s approach to student safety: “Fund schools, not officers”

The agreement includes a 4.5% raise for teachers and a framework that would let the LBUSD offer full-day kindergarten and transitional kindergarten in the fall.

The Long Beach Health Department also sent a statement announcing those who are unvaccinated will be allowed to go mask-less indoors beginning Tuesday, also in alignment with a state announcement Monday.

Despite the challenges of filling those vacancies, Eftychiou said there are no plans to close schools.

On Monday, the LBUSD had 369 requests for a substitute teacher, a little more than triple what they’d normally get on the Monday after winter break, an LBUSD spokesperson said.

“We dropped our kids off today and I had a sinking feeling that I’m throwing my kiddos into some kind of a fire,” one parent said.

White Supremacist Propaganda Appears in California Cities as They Brace for White Lives Matter Rally On 4/9/21 at 2:53 PM EDT There have been multiple reports of white supremacist propaganda appearing in Southern California cities over the past few weeks, ahead of a White Lives Matter rally that is planned to occur on Sunday at Huntington Beach. The most recent incident occurred in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach, where handwritten flyers were found Wednesday morning that contained the whit...

- ADVERTISEMENT - The flyers were posted some time overnight in the highly trafficked business corridor. They appeared to be hand written and bore a well-known White supremacist slogan called “the 14 Words,” which proclaims the need to secure a future for “White children.” “I’m extremely disheartened that somebody used our community as a platform to spread hate,” said Councilman Al Austin, who represents the Bixby Knolls area. Several of the messages were found taped to businesses...

The Long Beach Unified School District this week is coping with a much smaller allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses than it expected.