Long Beach City School District

Imagine that you pick your seven-year-old child up from school. He is crying and wearing a different outfit than the one he wore to school. This is naturally upsetting but not as upsetting as your next discovery. His shirt, one you have never seen before, has a large "L" written on the sleeve in permanent marker; his shorts, also not his, are too large, stained and faded. Upon questioning your child, you discover that, despite your best efforts at compliance, your child’s clothing has violated the

Mandatory Uniforms in Public Schools Do you want equality among students in your child's school? Do you want less violence within your child's school? Would you like your daughter to concentrate more on her schoolwork and less on what name brand jeans she is wearing? All this is possible with mandatory uniform policies in public school districts. School uniforms may seem outdated for some people, but in many cases they can improve school spirit, attendance and student behavior. According

​ School uniforms in public schools may seem out of style to some student, but in many situation they can increase school spirit, class participation and student time Management. According to The American Humanist Magazine, in President Bill Clinton 's 1996 State of the Union Address he requested that all 16,000 school districts to mandate a uniform guideline for its students. He stated that , "If it means that juvenile will stop bloodshed each other over designer outfits of clothing brand, then

School Uniforms: Beneficial or Detrimental? According to the Penn State university's website there are many studies done to find if Uniforms are beneficial or not. In my opinion think they are not beneficial because of many reasons, one of them being that the students would not be comfortable in these uniforms thus making them more distracted. One study performed in 1995 disproves my argument but more recent studies show that that statistic can change. According to Anthony Carboni from D-News

School uniforms, do you consider them as an obstruction of the 1st amendment of the US Constitution “Freedom of Expression”? How about having equality amongst every child at school age? This is the perfect age to teach them that no matter the social economic status from one child to another, nobody is any less or more then someone else. School uniforms would be an enormous step towards shaping a better future for our children. This would stop all the questions some parents get from their asking “why

City of Long Beach’s has many new construction projects. Many of those projects are revamping and upgrading facilities that were deemed unsafe per regulatory standards. Of the city’s current plans, one project is the new Belmont Aquatics Center. Like many recreational swimming pools controlled by municipalities, they are often filled and maintained using freshwater, a scarce natural resource. To properly evaluate the prospective aquatics center, the city may want to calculate the use and the value

evaluation. The program will not include randomization of students, however we will have an experimental group and a comparison group. Participants will be selected from three high schools within the Long Beach school district. Two high schools will receive the full program while the third will serve as a comparison school. The students in the comparison group will not receive the program whatsoever and will strictly be used to compare their result to the results of the experimental group. Pre-tests

Verronica Massey English 101 Mrs. Stansell December 6 2007 Title: In all schools over the United States students are fighting over clothing. Some children have no respect for themselves when it comes to what they are wearing. They dress like it is a night club or like they are out on a nice sunny day at the beach. This is not appealing to everyone. This is one reason why many schools have gone to school dress codes or uniforms. Dress codes help prevent fighting, many unwanted distraction

history of school uniforms in the United States public schools begins with small underprivileged school of Cherry Hill Elementary in Maryland and the domino effect that happened soon after in the years after. The popularity of school uniforms can greatly be credited to the Long Beach, California study and President Bill Clinton’s speech on the topic. At first, school uniforms were only for the private or Catholic private schools however the school uniform trend spread to other public schools to adopt

born in a city with one of the nation’s worst public school systems. The District of Columbia Public School district has been under an education reform for the past decade and there has been a lot of work to bring justice to the students there. That is where I started – and from there I still found myself enrolled in low performing schools without a solid budget or plan. Regardless of the status of my school and the budget it’s district has created, I was able to graduate from high school and attend