According to officials with the Long Beach Unified School District, school board member Michael Shane Ellis told district officials on Tuesday that he expects to attend the next board meeting on Tuesday, July 7. Ellis has missed a string of recent board meetings. He has not returned repeated phone calls and emails from the Press-Telegram in the past week.
Prior to his contacting district officials on Tuesday, LBUSD officials had said they had been unable to reach Ellis in the last eight weeks.
Prior to his contacting district officials on Tuesday, LBUSD officials had said they had been unable to reach Ellis in the last eight weeks.
Kevin Butler has been covering education for more than five years at the Press-Telegram. Previously he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Independent weeklies and in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Investor's Business Daily. A native of Houston, Butler graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in economics and government. 
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