Long Beach schools anticipate small
Juniors Tema Sapoi-Finau, left, and Ashlee Priestley allotment a beam with accompany during the aboriginal day of academy at the California Academy of Algebraic and Science on Tuesday.
JEFF GRITCHEN , STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
ABC goes aback to school
Classes start: Tuesday
Schools: 29
Enrollment aftermost year: Added than 20,000 students
Online: www.abcusd.k12.ca.us/
Back-to-school tips
Free haircuts: Acceptance in kindergarten through eighth brand can admit a chargeless crew at Mr. Baker's Style Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The barbershop is teaming up with the Appointment of Councilman Dee Andrews to board the haircuts.
Finding uniforms: Kids in kindergarten-grade 8 in Long Beach schools charge abrasion uniforms. Millikan and Wilson aerial schools crave them, too. BJ Clothes on Seventh Street, Long Beach Boulevard and Willow Street advertise uniforms. The Assistance Alliance of Long Beach provides chargeless uniforms to those in need. Alarm the alliance at 562-627-5650.
Free or reduced-price meals: Families who authorize can administer for chargeless or reduced-price commons through the district. Forms to authorize should admit accomplished households with enrolled children, or they can be best up at the school's capital office, cafeteria or the Nutrition Services Branch at 3333 Airport Way. Until a apprentice qualifies, he needs to appear academy with a cafeteria from home or buy commons at abounding price.
City buses: They now admit TAP cards, or artificial reusable cards. Acceptance will anon charge a K-12 Apprentice TAP agenda to ride the buses. For added advice or an application, alarm 562-591-2301.
Homework help: Having agitation with homework? Amid the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, acceptance can alarm the appointment hotline to assignment with a tutor. Acceptance who alarm frequently admit prizes. For apprenticeship help, alarm 562-437-2859.
LBUSD by the numbers
4,497
Students were enrolled in Poly Aerial Academy aftermost year. Poly is the district's better aerial school.
Students were enrolled in McBride Aerial Academy aftermost year. The acceptance fabricated up the school's countdown apprentice class.
42
The accumulated cardinal of industry pathways at all Long Beach aerial schools combined.
50
The accepted cardinal of pathways in Long Beach aerial schools by 2018.
St. Anthony Aerial renovations
St. Anthony's 500 aerial academy acceptance alternate to a adapted campus Monday. In a activity that amount about $2 million, the clandestine Catholic academy adapted the science architecture and created three advanced labs for chemistry, biology, physics and technology.
The academy additionally spruced up its chapel, adroitness lounge and theater, installed solar panels and bigger its baseball field, according to academy backer Laura Romero. The improvements are allotment of a plan to board growing acceptance numbers and changes in curriculum. St. Anthony Aerial Academy was accustomed in Long Beach in 1920.
The canicule of acceptance activity absent in the army at Long Beach's behemothic aerial schools are numbered.
As acceptance book in for the aboriginal day of academy Wednesday in the Long Beach Unified Academy District, added will acquisition themselves at abate schools and akin with close acquirements communities as the commune works to reinvent its campuses and curriculum.
With about 80,000 students, Long Beach Unified is the third-largest academy commune in the accompaniment and has six large, absolute aerial schools – acceptance acme out at 4,500 at Poly High. But the commune is creating bisected a dozen baby aerial schools that articulation arbiter ability with real-world ability and job skills.
By abutting acceptance with ample administration and industry leaders in the city, acceptance are accompanying advancing for academy and the workforce.
Last year, the commune opened its aboriginal new baby aerial school, McBride in East Long Beach, which has an accent on medical, law administration and engineering careers.
Next year, the commune is assertive to accessible a baby aerial academy abreast the Cal Accompaniment Long Beach campus that emphasizes biomedical and engineering fields, and others beyond the burghal will accessible through at atomic 2017. Ample aerial schools additionally admit themed areas of study, alleged pathways, that are affiliated to industry fields, creating baby acquirements communities on big campuses.
"The accomplished abstraction in the pathways is that kids apprentice why their studies, their amount subjects, are accompanying to a acreage of study," said LBUSD Superintendent Chris Steinhauser. "It aloof helps them accept the access amid what we alarm 'real assignment issues.'"
That access has resonated with acceptance in programs throughout California, who admit apparent assets in graduation rates, attendance, becoming added credits against graduation and are added acceptable to be on clue for commutual per-requisite courses to appear a accessible university, according to analysis on the programs.
Linked Learning, as the affairs is called, goes aback no added than 10 years and is abiding in California schools, said Jared Stallones, who is a assistant of apprenticeship at Cal Accompaniment Long Beach and manages the single-subject credential affairs that licenses teachers.
Such teaching alcove acceptance who ahead may admit acquainted their studies had no activated appliance and rewards talent.
"I anticipate it absolutely does admit the abeyant to appoint acceptance who haven't been aflame to go to academy every day," Stallones said. "I anticipate it has a lot of abeyant to array of akin the arena acreage of apprenticeship inequity."
Long Beach Burghal Academy drafting assistant Adrian Erb has apparent this firsthand. She has acceptance from Long Beach aerial schools who didn't adore algebraic chic but in application accouterment apprehend its importance.
"When we do the 3D printing, the hands-on, that's back they booty off," Erb said. "They absolutely get agog back they get to do something. They absolutely accept why they're learning. It's meaningful. It's applied."
The access acceptance accomplish in careers are absolute and abiding by accouterment acceptance with internships and alive with industry professionals while still at the aerial academy level.
"The affair that makes Affiliated Acquirements different is it's not aloof array of 'Let's accomplish accept we're NASA scientists.' They accomplish real-world access in the industry," Stallones said.
Title : Long Beach schools anticipate small
Description : Long Beach schools anticipate small Juniors Tema Sapoi-Finau, left, and Ashlee Priestley allotment a beam with accompany...