
Larger class sizes and fewer teachers look like a certainty for the Manhattan Beach Unified School District next year…
At last week’s school board meeting, district officials began the difficult task of slashing $4 million from their $50 million budget. The district, after already absorbing $4 million in cuts last year, again finds itself in the position of preparing for another round of reductions in state education funding.

Police arrested a man Tuesday for soliciting students at Pacific Elementary School for their urine.
The 18-year-old Manhattan Beach resident allegedly walked onto the 600-student campus Friday and separately approached two students in the boys’ bathroom, offering to pay them for giving him their urine in a cup…

The elimination of summer school at most grade levels, increased class sizes, and the departure of as many as 70 experienced teachers are among the options the school district is considering as a means of balancing a budget diminished by repeated state education funding cuts.


