Measure K UPDATES: Index to Archived Articles

Spring 2013

Teaching Starts at McBride High Before School Opens
Months before the school opens its doors, McBride High School is already a place where teaching and learning are happening. For Alfonso Tejeda, the construction site is a living classroom.

New Plans Call for Multi-Phase Renovations at Jordan
Measure K staff recently unveiled a multi-phase master plan for renovating Jordan High School. As the single largest Measure K project to date, upgrades to the 27-acre campus are budgeted at $136 million for construction and will occur in six phases.

Keeping It Local
Transportation Planning Integral To Jordan High Renovations: Working out of the Iteris firm's Long Beach offices, Gary Hamrick, vice president for Western Region Planning, heads a team that will examine existing traffic and access patterns and consider vehicular drop-off, pick-up, parking, bicycle access and pedestrian issues.

FALL 2012

	Board of Education to Revisit Facility Plan The Long Beach Unified School District's Board of Education will re-examine the district's Facility Master Plan in the coming months in light of shrinking enrollment, state budget cuts and new technology requirements.
	Newcomb Foundation Funds Enrichment Despite being housed on a temporary campus during the rebuilding of their school, Newcomb Academy students are still enjoying enrichment programs such as a full-time music teacher and electives like marine biology, photography and home economics.
	McBride Enrollment Questions and Answers Ernest S. McBride, Sr. High School is scheduled to open fall 2013. For those interested in enrolling their student at the new high school, this document is available to answer frequently asked questions.
	Citizens' Oversight Committee Represents Public Interests When Mike Noll was a real estate salesman in the Long Beach area, one of the first questions prospective buyers would ask was, "How are the schools?" That question is still posed to him today, because he serves as vice chair of the Measure K Citizens' Oversight Committee of the Long Beach Unified School District.
	Long Beach Environmental Firm Ensures Building Demos are Safe When Dave Schack started working as a field technician for a small environmental firm in 1989, he was just out of college and preparing to attend law school. Now, 23 years later, he's vice president of environmental health and safety and building sciences at Alta Environmental of Long Beach and says he doesn't look back to the legal career he might have had.
	Old is New Architects designing the new Roosevelt Elementary School are working to retain some of the original art deco architectural features. Demolition is underway, and reconstruction is scheduled to begin in summer 2013.

SUMMER 2012

	Technology to Boost Learning at New Nelson Academy The first school built from the ground up with Measure K funds will open this fall with wireless technology, which will provide a powerful new tool for the classroom.The first school built from the ground up with Measure K funds will open this fall with wireless technology, which will provide a powerful new tool for the classroom.
	Swim Champ Turned Teacher Welcomes Cabrillo High Pool When Jennifer Brown was a student at Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, she won several swim titles and was captain of the swim team. Now a teacher and coordinator of small learning communities at Cabrillo High School, she serves on the advisory team for the new aquatic center on the northeast side of campus, where construction will start this summer.
	Contractors Learn About Local Hiring Procedure To help boost the local economy, the Long Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education recently approved a resolution to promote hiring of qualified job seekers within the school district boundaries. The aim is to reinvest Measure K dollars back into the community.
	Keeping It Local Hiring Local: Long Beach architects, MSP, create jobs, design schools; and Signal Hill geologists, Associated Soils Engineering, Inc., help ensure earthquake safety.

WINTER 2012

	First Measure K Construction Project Nears Completion Jessie Elwin Nelson Middle School, the first major new construction project funded by Measure K, will be completed this spring, opening to students this fall. The Signal Hill school will serve about 850 students in grades six to eight in the Poly High School area, drawing graduates of Alvarado, Burnett, Signal Hill and Robinson elementary schools.
	Interim Housing Set for Roosevelt and Newcomb Students and staff of Roosevelt Elementary School and Newcomb K-8 Academy will prepare to move to interim housing at the close of the current semester, as the reconstruction of both campuses nears. The Board of Education announced that Roosevelt students will temporarily attend Butler Middle School while Newcomb students will go to Keller Elementary School next school year.
	Perry Lindsey International Studies Magnet to Feature New Gymnasium Young athletes at Perry Lindsey International Studies Magnet will be able to play basketball and other sports indoors when the school’s new gymnasium opens in fall 2013. The project includes a 14,000-square-foot gym, as well as a new sports ﬁeld and parking improvements.
	Project Spotlight: Soccer Field Opens At Powell K-8 Academy This spring, student athletes at the Colin Powell K-8 Academy for Success will have a new place to exercise and enjoy the home field advantage when competing in sports, thanks to the creation of a 5.3- acre soccer field on campus.
	Project Spotlight: Roosevelt Elementary School As one of the largest and oldest elementary schools in the district, Roosevelt will be completely rebuilt to better serve the needs of the growing student community. Re-opening is projected for 2015.
	Keeping It Local Ernest McBride Sr. High School Crew Member Profiles Read about former student Joe Meza and neighbor Mike Boer

FALL 2011

	Construction Begins on First Small High School District officials and community leaders recently gathered to break ground at the site of the future Ernest S. McBride, Sr. High School, located at the site of the former DeMille Middle School.
	Who is Ernest McBride, Sr.? Learn about the namesake of first new small high school for Long Beach Unified School District: a Long Beach civil rights activist and community leader.
	Middle School Nears Completion The first school to be built with Measure K funds is scheduled to be completed in the next few months. Jessie Elwin Nelson Middle School in Signal Hill is now more than 80 percent complete, and on schedule to receive finishing touches by January 2012.
	Who was Jessie Elwin Nelson? Learn about the namesake of first new school built by Measure K funds for Long Beach Unified School District: co-founder of the City of Signal Hill, was its first mayor and one of the first women mayors in Southern California.
	Roosevelt’s Hope Carridine Personifies School’s Close Ties When Hope Carradine dropped off her son and daughter for their first day of school 22 years ago, she had no idea how Roosevelt Elementary School would change her life—and the lives of her entire family.
	Portables Removed from 14 Campuses This past summer, Measure K funds paid for the demolition and removal of outdated portablestructures on 14 campuses, and three more are slated.

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