LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (CA)

Education

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND CURRENT LAW IMPLEMENTATION - Regulations, guidance, waivers, and other implementation issues in diverse titles of the current Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization and specific impacts on California preK-12 public school districts, including Title I funding fairness issues, funding flexiblity, consolidation of Title I schoolwide funds, while preserving school and district accountability, and meeting the academic achievement needs of all students * INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT (IDEA) IMPLEMENTATION AND PREPARATION Regulations, guidance, and other implementation issues of the latest reauthorized federal special education law, to improve services and results for children with disabilities in preK-12 grades of local public schools and districts, including specific California impact, to identify inconsistencies in issues related to the education of children with disabilities, between IDEA and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and try to resolve them constructively * COMPREHENSIVE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION PREPARATION Preparation of recommendations to retain, revise, improve, add or eliminate provisions in the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the principal federal statute that affects K-12 public education, with California impact, and to increase awareness of Long Beach (CA) Unified-Fresno Unified (CA) learning partnerships achievement improvement models, and desirability of greater federal flexibilities * TO PROVIDE CONTINUING AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS AND FINANCIAL AID DURING TIMES OF FINANCIAL TURMOIL IN U.S. To ensure continuing availability of and access to, federal college student financial assistance for local public school students, especially those who aspire to attend college, are from low-income families or underrepresented groups, who may be the first in their families to chart such an academic course, and who are taking a course of study while enrolled in elementary and secondary school to prepare them to succeed in college and career, especially during the now turbulent financial times experienced in U.S. communities and in the State of California * TO DEVELOP STRENGTHENED SUPPORT FOR EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES To provide strengthened support for expanded learning initiatives and opportunities in local school districts and communities, so that students who need additional time to learn, in order to succeed academically, will have access to such opportunities * TO UPGRADE HEAD START AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS AND FACILITIES - To provide policies and funds that support early childhood education and facilities needs including emergency repairs, basic maintenance, health, safety and seismic fitness improvements. Also, to make significant investment in new construction and major renovations only on local school district early childhood learning sites, while fostering pilot design and development of early childhood education facilities based upon and aligned with PreK-Grade 3 continuum policies, programs and services models. * S 2252 - REBUILD AMERICA ACT - To provide that the U.S. Secretary of Education allocate grants to states, and through them, subgrants to local school districts for costs of retaining, recalling, rehiring or hiring employees to provide early childhood, elementary, or secondary education and related services and for modernizing facilities for those levels of education