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Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Polaris Venice High School graduate Kensei Ono, 18, waits for his turn to be photographed while his mother Susie holds a placard featuring her son while taking part in the Venice High School Class of 2020 Senior Graduation Parade in Venice in June 2020. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Polaris Venice High School graduate Kensei Ono, 18, waits for his turn to be photographed while his mother Susie holds a placard featuring her son while taking part in the Venice High School Class of 2020 Senior Graduation Parade in Venice in June 2020. April 6, ...

Print Katy Meza knows full well the pain distance learning is causing her son Matthew. The third-grader struggles with isolation, gets frustrated sitting in front of the computer for hours and is stalling academically. Still, Meza says she’s not prepared for him to return any time soon to in-person schooling at Bryson Elementary School in South Gate. Almost every family she knows has someone who has fallen ill with COVID-19. Her neighbor died of the disease, and his wife was hospitalized. And Meza has no confidence that her son’s school — which before the pandemic often lacked toilet pa...

- ADVERTISEMENT - At Lowell Elementary, in a well-off neighborhood just a short walk from Marine Stadium, the majority of students are preparing for their return to campus. At the end of this month, about 74% of Lowell’s 534 pupils will once again learn face-to-face with their teachers and peers now that their parents opted to enroll them in the Long Beach Unified School District’s “hybrid” learning option, which splits the school day between on-campus classes and at-home learning. Lowell is the LBUSD elementary school with the highest percentage of students signed up to return to cla...

- ADVERTISEMENT - “As of this Saturday, all of our employees will have had the opportunity to be vaccinated,” said Baker. The LBUSD has about 12,000 employees and is the largest employer in the city. Long Beach has drawn praise from California Gov. Gavin Newsom for being a leader in getting teachers vaccinated. According to LBUSD spokesperson Chris Eftychiou, the district has so far offered more than 6,200 appointments for vaccines to its employees. “That’s in addition to the many employees who’ve received vaccinations through other means,” said Eftychiou, who said the district di...

26.88% of all grades issued were D's and F's during fall 2020, which was the first semester LBUSD issued grades since campuses closed.