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Dozens of Long Beach Unified parents, leaders and community members attended a school board meeting Wednesday to oppose the district’s recommendation to close two schools. Families urged the school board to vote against closing Gompers and Edison elementary schools at the end of the 2026-27 school year, a recommendation administrators made recently because both schools operate well below capacity, the district said. Steady enrollment decline has left LBUSD with more buildings than it needs for its 59,828 students, district officials said, and school closures help “right-size” the distric
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Dozens of Long Beach Unified parents, leaders and community members attended a school board meeting Wednesday to oppose the district’s recommendation to close two schools. Families urged the school board to vote against closing Gompers and Edison elementary schools at the end of the 2026-27 school year, a recommendation administrators made recently because both schools operate well below capacity, the district said. Steady enrollment decline has left LBUSD with more buildings than it needs for its 59,828 students, district officials said, and school closures help “right-size” the distric
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