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E E R F Education + Communication = A Better Nation ® Covering the Long Beach Unified School District Serving the communities of Long Beach, Lakewood & Signal Hill VOLUME 12, ISSUE 97www.schoolnewsrollcall.com OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2011 SUPERINTENDENT Opportunities Betty Houston Seal Abound for Students By Judy Seal, Betty’s Daughter Thanks to the Until the end, Betty Seal hard work of our employees, students, was a kind, thoughtful, parents and others caring person. in our community, Christopher J. we’re seeing tremen- Betty Houston Seal Steinhauser dous growth in our Jan. 28, 1925 – Aug. 7, 2011 students’ college and career readi- ness. Recent information from the Long Beach, California is unique state confirms that our students in many ways, but the most wonderful made impressive gains last year, attribute of Long Beach is its long even amid unprecedented cuts in history of raising, educating, and state funding for our schools. celebrating people who devote their Consider a few examples: lives to serving others. A record 82 percent of our Betty Seal was born at Seaside schools met the state’s schoolwide Hospital in Long Beach, California to targets on the Academic Long Beach and Signal Hill Judge Performance Index (API) for the Oscar E. Houston and his wife, 2010-11 school year. Annette. She attended LBUSD Our elementary students now schools graduating from Poly High perform above the state average in School in 1941. She went to Long math in all grade levels. In English, Beach City College and received the they also perform above the state Viking Award for outstanding contri- average in most grade levels.
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