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A 2023 report found that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach contributed $21.8 billion in direct revenue to local service providers, generating $2.7 billion in state and local taxes and creating 165,462 jobs, directly and indirectly.

But it probably faces hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding cuts that leaders say could prompt enrollment reductions.

Kling, who lost his home in the Palisades fire, is the winningest high school tennis coach in state history, having amassed more than 1,440 victories.

Nelson has been in federal custody since August 2024 and was previously serving a prison sentence in Kentucky after being convicted in state court there in an unrelated case.

But over the last decade, a sea change in state discipline policy — one born in part out of an understanding that such suspensions disproportionately affect Black, Latino and Indigenous students — largely outlawed that kind of punishment.