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Rosie the Riveter Charter High School closed
- 09-22-2010
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By Kevin Butler/Long Beach Press-Telegram
Rosie the Riveter Charter High School, which provided vocational education to at-risk students, closed this fall due to budget problems, a school official said Tuesday. The charter school, which was authorized by the Long Beach Unified School District, had only about 45 students last year, short of the 100 needed to receive enough per-pupil state funding to break even, a school official said. The school, which opened in 2007, expected a similar enrollment this fall, said Linda Parrott, assistant director of youth programs at the nonprofit Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles, the school's parent organization. The Los Angeles-based nonprofit had been contributing funds to keep the school open, but this fall had to shut down the campus, which was located at 690 Studebaker Road, she said. (more…)
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