Accord Allows Academy to Remain Open Until 2001
The city has settled a lawsuit it filed last year objecting to the opening of the Long Beach Preparatory Academy on the grounds that it would be a magnet for crime and juvenile delinquents.
The academy is attended by eighth-graders who have received at least one failing grade. The settlement, agreed upon Tuesday by the Long Beach school board, permits the academy to operate until June 2001. A committee will be formed to review plans for a permanent elementary or middle school at the Signal Hill site.
Signal Hill, next to Long Beach, is part of the Long Beach Unified School District.
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