As part of our June 2026 primary voter guide, the Long Beach Post and LAist partnered to ask school board candidates how they’d handle the issues voters said they cared about most. See the answers from the other candidates in this race, Diana Craighead and Sara Pol-Lim, and find our guides for all the other local races at LBPost.com/elections.
Even after significant staff reductions this year, Long Beach Unified anticipates it needs to cut tens of millions more from its budget next year. What would you cut? In the long term, with steadily declining enrollment, what needs to be done to ensure adequate funding for LBUSD?
Audit admin costs, consolidate underused campuses, protect classrooms. Long Term: align staffing to enrollment, expand programs attracting families, pursue diverse funding sources.
The board of education has set ambitious goals for boosting literacy, English language arts and algebra proficiency, and college and career readiness. These goals place particular emphasis on closing the achievement gap between Black students and other student groups. While recent monitoring reports show some modest improvement, the district is not currently on track to meet most of these goals. What would you do to accelerate academic achievement and close performance gaps?…