LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 The Long Beach Unified School District is considering closing Edison and Gompers elementary schools at the end of the school year, citing declining enrollment and the district\u2019s financial challenges.<\/p>\n
The district has already closed down other schools in previous years for similar reasons.<\/p>\n
The announcement sparked concern among local parents who argue the district\u2019s own decisions have led to lower enrollment at the schools and worry about the impact this could have on their children.<\/p>\n
The district\u2019s \u201cSchool Capacities Working Group,\u201d which looked at each school\u2019s capacity to accommodate students, found Edison Elementary School is operating at around 44% of its program capacity.<\/p>\n
It also found Gompers Elementary School is operating at around 38% of its program capacity.<\/p>\n
Parents from both schools who oppose the move pushed back against the recommendation at a school board meeting in early October.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 The Long Beach Unified School District is considering closing Edison and Gompers elementary schools…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16493,7,15,131,133,132,5999,28190,5996],"class_list":["post-501613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-app-education","tag-california","tag-education","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-socal-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vania-patino","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}