All 19 candidates vying for election in the April 12 Long Beach primary have confirmed attendance at a March 2 Citywide Candidates’ Forum. Leadership Long Beach (LLB) is organizing the event in partnership with the Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach Community Action Partnership (LBCAP), Public Access Digital Network (PADNET) and PalacioMagazine.com. The forum will take place from 5-8…
PalacioMagazine.com recently interviewed Luis J. Rodriquez, the current poet laureate of Los Angeles. The Friends of the Long Beach Public Library Blanche Collins Forum are honoring and featuring Rodriguez on Saturday, February 27th at 2 p.m. Rodriguez is the son of Mexican immigrants and has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers with fifteen…
By Melissa Morgan “The vast majority of students enrolled in LBUSD (Long Beach Unified School District) are Hispanic, roughly 55%,” according to District Superintendent Christopher Steinhauser. Steinhauser says the 2014 Hispanic student graduation rate in Long Beach was higher than state and countywide graduation rates. It was 78.8% in LBUSD, compared to 76.4% statewide and…