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Nearly two-thirds of total unused $13.5 billion must be spent by fall of 2024.

New analysis finds wide variations in the spending of $13.5 billion in ESSER III funding, including 20% set aside for addressing learning setbacks.

After months of negotiations and stalemate, the Long Beach Unified School District and the Teachers Association of Long Beach met one last time on Wednesday to try and avoid going into state mediation—and it appears the final attempt was successful.

18-year-old Mona Rodriguez was a passenger in a car driving away from the officer when he opened fire, killing her near Millikan High School.

Carver Elementary School has been ordered to close for five days starting Friday, weeks after officials began detecting an increase in norovirus among students and staff. 

Parents and teacher-librarians, who are credentialed to educate kids with no teacher supervision, showed up in force to last night’s board meeting to protest the change in policy for library staffing, arguing that it would remove needed resources from district students.

An LBUSD spokesperson said the student's accusations were investigated by school administration and law enforcement last year, but they were "neither corroborated nor substantiated."

Long Beach officials are actively looking for a second site to host a shelter for those experiencing homelessness after a plan to convert a West Long Beach park gymnasium into a temporary site was nixed following a public protest last week.

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

The leak included names, emails and ID numbers of students and staff, but it did not contain any sensitive information like addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers or grades.