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Rumble on Pine Rockabilly Music Festival at MADhaus
July 20, 2013 from 11am to 7pm
Party on Pine presents Rumble on Pine! A FREE, all ages, all day show featuring classic cars, great BBQ and vegetarian options too. Craft beer garden, full bar, Pin-Up girl contest, art show and children's activities. FREE Fun for the whole family! Please visit our Facebook event page for the most up to date information: https://www.facebook.com/events/514013381979632/Please visit: …See More
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Barbie posted an eventRumble on Pine Rockabilly Music Festival at MADhaus
July 20, 2013 from 11am to 7pm
Party on Pine presents Rumble on Pine! A FREE, all ages, all day show featuring classic cars, great BBQ and vegetarian options too. Craft beer garden, full bar, Pin-Up girl contest, art show and children's activities. FREE Fun for the whole family! Please visit our Facebook event page for the most up to date information: https://www.facebook.com/events/514013381979632/Please visit: …See More
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Kris Kristofferson at Carpenter Performing Arts Center
February 1, 2014 from 8pm to 10pm
Three-time Grammy Award winner Kris Kristofferson is an American original, with hits like “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night.” A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the legendary singer/ songwriter’s newest album explores love, gratitude, aging, war, and his ever-present theme of freedom. “If you took freedom out of the songs, you’d have very few Kristofferson songs.”See More
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Long Beach Playhouse
May 25, 2013 at 8pm to June 29, 2013 at 8pm
May 25 - June 22, 2013Fridays & Saturdays 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. Seymour, a down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding her growing appetite. A sadistic nitrous-oxide inhaling dentist is just one of Audrey II’s gustatory delights as she eats her way…See More
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Cinco de Mayo Special @ Chocolate Sundaes Comedy Show inside the Laugh Factory at The Laugh Factory
May 5, 2013 at 8pm to May 6, 2013 at 1am
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What Does The Weighted Pupil System Mean to Long Beach?
Many people have been affected by the $20 billion dollar cut education has taken over the past four years (yeah, that's with a B). Understandably, some schools have felt the depleting funds more than others. The Weighted Pupil system that Governor Jerry Brown is trying to get passed is working to more effectively spread the funding so every student has a fair chance at quality education no matter where he or she grows up in Calif. For instance, a person who went to the school on the right of the photo might get the school better funds than if he or she attended the school on the left.
So here's a really quick run-down of what the Weighted Pupil System is:
Currently, the funding is determined by the number of students in a school versus the average number who actually show up to school per day.
With the weighted pupil system, schools will get a base funding per student of about $4,920. An additional $1,820 will be given for each low-income and/or English-language learner (ELL). If the school is made up of more than 50 percent low-income and/or ELL students, their funding would increase an additional 37 percent for every 10 percent over. It's a bit confusing.
Long Beach Unified School District is made up of more than 50 percent low-income/ELL students.
The proposed changes would take about six years to fully go into effect. Starting with the 2012 school year, about 5 percent of the funds for schools would be based on the weighted pupil system all the way through to the 2017 school year where 100 percent of the funding would be based on the system.
What are some reasons as to why people would be against this system? How do you feel about the change? Is there another way to improve the way schools get funding or should the system remain the same?
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Permalink Reply by Jesus Hernandez on -
You're probably right Sander. Why do you say that?
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Permalink Reply by JulsnMatt1028 on -
Thanks for explaining Jesus! I like the sounds of this proposal, we all know funds do not currently get evenly distributed... The picture above does a good job illustrating that fact too.
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Permalink Reply by Luan Evans on -
this looks to be a way to get around affirmative action. while i do come from a low income family, and have had all of my tuition covered (through 11 years off and on at LBCC, and now at Chapman) I dont think this is the solution. Many people who DESERVE to go to college will be overlooked because the schools will be looking at bottom lines. What they need to do is close the underperforming, smaller campuses and funnel that money into the larger schools. They already have the bridge program where if you go to a long beach school you are pretty much accepted at CSULB. what happened to going to college because you earned it? CSULB is a sinking ship anyway. there are too many students, not enough teachers and classes being offered. i know its an unpopular opinion, but why not raise tuition to a liveable workable rate? i go to a school that costs 40 grand a year. you know what they do with our extra tuition? build classrooms. add programs. try to buy the Crystal Cathedral.
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Permalink Reply by Little Pedro on -
Oddly what's being missed here is the spending per pupil is dropping about $1000 dollars under this plan; current per pupil spending is about $5800.
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Permalink Reply by JulsnMatt1028 on
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Nice catch and good point...
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