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During Tuesday’s meeting, the board swore in a new member, Area 1 representative Maria Isabel López, and elected Diana Craighead as president of the board for the next year. Board member Doug Otto will serve as vice president for the upcoming year.
Mona Rodriguez’s killing fueled a movement to transform Long Beach’s approach to student safety: “Fund schools, not officers”
“What the research has shown across the nation about school safety is that more police do not equal more perceived safety,” a member of the Safer LBUSD Campaign told LBUSD trustees.
What can we do with the fears and concerns that are regularly reinforced by events like the murder of George Floyd or the killing of Black shoppers at a supermarket?
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said the school district 'absolutely made the right call' in firing the officer who shot Mona Rodriguez.