L.A. Unified enrollment drops by more than 27,000 students, steepest decline in years
3 years, 2 months ago

L.A. Unified enrollment drops by more than 27,000 students, steepest decline in years

LA Times  

Students gather in class at Daniel Webster Middle School with LAUSD Interim Supt. Enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District has dropped by more than 27,000 students since last year, a decline of close to 6% — a much steeper slide than in any recent year. The overall enrollment decline in L.A. Unified last year was about 4% — compared to about 2% in recent pre-pandemic times. “The enrollment in Los Angeles public schools has declined steadily over the last two decades due to a number of factors including outmigration of young families to the Inland Empire and other areas outside the boundaries of LAUSD and a decline in immigration,” UCLA education Professor John Rogers said. “Alongside this general decline in enrollment, the last two decades have seen growth in the proportion of students enrolling in charter schools and a relative decline in the proportion of students attending non-charter schools in LAUSD.” The current decline also is affecting Los Angeles-area charter schools, some charter and district officials said.

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COVID outbreaks hit workplaces, schools across California as summer illnesses worsen
1 year, 3 months ago

COVID outbreaks hit workplaces, schools across California as summer illnesses worsen

LA Times  

The summer COVID bump is worsening in California, with infections spreading at schools and workplaces, and hospitalizations ticking up. Among the work sites in L.A. County where there are active COVID-19 outbreak investigations are the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, CBS Studio Center Stage 18, the L.A. City Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Street Services, the Westchester-Loyola Village Branch …

COVID-19 cases are starting to drop in L.A. Will the decline last?
2 years ago

COVID-19 cases are starting to drop in L.A. Will the decline last?

LA Times  

Shoppers make their way along Santee Alley in Los Angeles on Dec. 6. “Almost three years into the pandemic, there could be a sense of resignation with the ebbs and flow of transmission,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a recent briefing. L.A. County’s weekly case rate last week reached a seasonal high of 272 for every …

San Diego Unified’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate struck down in court — again
2 years, 1 month ago

San Diego Unified’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate struck down in court — again

LA Times  

Nurse Zoe Reza administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Blossom Bess, 15, at a mobile clinic at Crawford High School in San Diego in January. A California appeals court ruled against the San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 student vaccine mandate, which has been on pause for the last half-year. “This is a great win for children and the rule of …

L.A. Unified enrollment continues to fall, but drop is cushioned by influx of 4-year-olds
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A. Unified enrollment continues to fall, but drop is cushioned by influx of 4-year-olds

LA Times  

A high school student from Maywood Center for Enriched Studies magnet school speaks during a lunch break. Student enrollment at Los Angeles Unified continued to decline this fall — although less than district officials had predicted — as new state funding expanded transitional kindergarten to more 4-year-olds. Alberto Carvalho said the enrollment of 422,276 — spanning from transitional kindergarten through …

Editorial: Bring back the lost children of Los Angeles Unified
2 years, 4 months ago

Editorial: Bring back the lost children of Los Angeles Unified

LA Times  

Some 10,000 to 20,000 Los Angeles area kids are missing — not in the picture-on-a-milk-carton sense, but vanished from Los Angeles Unified School District enrollment rosters and unaccounted for as schools plan the start of classes on Aug. 15. Opinion Editorial: L.A. Unified fails to get kids the tutoring they need LAUSD has a history of not following through with …

L.A. schools drop aggressive COVID-19 rules: No more testing for all and masks stay optional
2 years, 4 months ago

L.A. schools drop aggressive COVID-19 rules: No more testing for all and masks stay optional

LA Times  

When Los Angeles schools open on Aug. 15, mask wearing will be optional and other COVID-19 safety rules relaxed to match with county requirements. Los Angeles Unified school leaders on Tuesday officially stepped back from COVID-19 safety protocols that have been among the most far-reaching in the country, choosing instead to mirror current county requirements and join most other school …

L.A. school board delays student COVID-19 vaccine mandate without any discussion
2 years, 7 months ago

L.A. school board delays student COVID-19 vaccine mandate without any discussion

LA Times  

Sarginoor Kaur, 7, gets the COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Chelsea Meyer at Arleta High School in November. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved a delay of a student vaccine mandate for COVID-19 that had been scheduled to take effect next fall, under a recommendation from Supt. About 78% of Los Angeles Unified School District students age …

L.A. schools chief pushes to delay student COVID vaccination mandate
2 years, 7 months ago

L.A. schools chief pushes to delay student COVID vaccination mandate

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Unified School District should delay its requirement that students be vaccinated against COVID-19 until next year, its superintendent recommended Thursday, given the system’s already high vaccination rates among older students as well as low transmission rates in schools. “We also know that the district’s high vaccination rates played a crucial role in keeping kids in school throughout …

L.A. Unified’s fall 2022 vaccine mandate in question as state delays its requirement
2 years, 8 months ago

L.A. Unified’s fall 2022 vaccine mandate in question as state delays its requirement

LA Times  

A nurse gives a student the first dose of the Pfiizer vaccine. The Los Angeles Unified School District, among the largest school districts in the nation to mandate student COVID-19 vaccines, is now confronted with a pivotal decision over whether to stick with its requirement for fall 2022 or align with the state, which has delayed its rule for at …

School coronavirus cases down 70% in L.A. County since start of spring term
2 years, 10 months ago

School coronavirus cases down 70% in L.A. County since start of spring term

LA Times  

Laura Duggan, right, a school office assistant, takes a coronavirus test at Wright Middle School in Calabasas in the fall — before the Omicron surge. Coronavirus infections have declined about 70% since the start of the spring semester among students in L.A. County, but overall rates remain significantly higher than they were before the current surge. For the week beginning …

L.A. schools see coronavirus rates decline; student attendance improves amid record surge
2 years, 11 months ago

L.A. schools see coronavirus rates decline; student attendance improves amid record surge

LA Times  

Seventh- and eighth-grade students in advanced engineering at Olive Vista Middle School in Sylmar on the first day back in January after winter break. Many students who tested positive in the week before school could be back in class — as could some students who were being held at home last week by worried parents. The school’s administrative team is …

California schools under intense strain, fighting to stay open during Omicron surge
2 years, 11 months ago

California schools under intense strain, fighting to stay open during Omicron surge

LA Times  

A student shows her negative coronavirus test result from a cellphone to enter Olive Vista Middle School this week. And in Culver City, district leaders announced that they would close all schools next week to give students and staff time to “recoup and recover.” Educators across California are in triage mode working to keep campuses open and the state’s 6 …

L.A. Unified orders COVID testing before school resumes amid high Omicron anxiety
2 years, 11 months ago

L.A. Unified orders COVID testing before school resumes amid high Omicron anxiety

LA Times  

L.A. Unified has ordered mandatory testing for all students and staff before classes resume on Jan. 11. Although none of the 80 school districts in L.A. County has announced a return to online learning — with 50 school systems beginning on Monday — county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told school leaders to brace for the worse surge yet, with …

L.A. County public, private school staff must wear high-grade masks; rules for athletes tighten
2 years, 11 months ago

L.A. County public, private school staff must wear high-grade masks; rules for athletes tighten

LA Times  

Nurse Brandi Hill wears an N95 mask at Martin Luther King Community Hospital in this file photo. Employees at all Los Angeles County public and private schools will have to wear medical grade masks at work and students and staff must wear masks outdoors in crowded spaces under tightened rules issued in anticipation of classes beginning Monday amid a major …

Los Angeles schools delay student COVID-19 vaccine mandate
3 years ago

Los Angeles schools delay student COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Associated Press  

The Los Angeles school district, which was among the first to announce mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for students, has become the latest in California to delay a plan that would have forced thousands of unvaccinated students to return to distance learning. The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District voted Tuesday night to postpone a Jan. 10 deadline for students …

L.A. school board delays enforcement of student vaccine mandate to fall 2022
3 years ago

L.A. school board delays enforcement of student vaccine mandate to fall 2022

LA Times  

Aidan Williams sits with son Ocean, 5, as he gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot from nurse Chelsea Meyer in November. The Los Angeles school board agreed Tuesday to delay enforcement of its student COVID-19 vaccine mandate from Jan. 10 to fall 2022, citing concerns over disrupting learning and the monumental task of transferring tens of thousands of students into independent …

Op-Ed: Los Angeles led the nation on measles vaccination mandates. Can it do that for COVID?
3 years ago

Op-Ed: Los Angeles led the nation on measles vaccination mandates. Can it do that for COVID?

LA Times  

On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the L.A. County Public Health Department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county’s 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a month or keep them home. The threat — voiced by Dr. Shirley Fannin, whom the Los Angeles Times described as “the energetic, no-nonsense physician” …

LAUSD poised to push back deadline for student COVID vaccinations to fall 2022
3 years ago

LAUSD poised to push back deadline for student COVID vaccinations to fall 2022

LA Times  

A student is vaccinated at the Manual Arts High School gym near downtown. The Los Angeles school district is poised to remove its Jan. 10 student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, confronted with more than 30,000 students 12 and older who are not fully vaccinated and would otherwise be barred from campus, a significant step back from one of the nation’s strictest …

Nearly 500 L.A. Unified employees lose their jobs for failing to get COVID-19 vaccine
3 years ago

Nearly 500 L.A. Unified employees lose their jobs for failing to get COVID-19 vaccine

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Unified School District fired about 500 employees who did not meet the COVID vaccination requirements. Nearly 500 Los Angeles school district employees have lost their jobs for failing to meet the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, officials announced on Tuesday. Los Angeles Unified continues to provide access to vaccines for employees and every eligible student.” The terminations come at …

They stuck to their anti-vax beliefs. Now these teachers and school workers are out of jobs
3 years, 1 month ago

They stuck to their anti-vax beliefs. Now these teachers and school workers are out of jobs

LA Times  

Former film-production teacher Jamal Y. Speakes Sr. can no longer get past the perimeter fence of Valley Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Sun Valley — because he refused a COVID-19 vaccination. About 1,500 others received an exemption — 175 for a serious medical condition or disability, and 1,325 for a “sincerely held religious belief.” Veteran high school teacher Speakes …

Facing major campus disruption and firings, LAUSD extends staff COVID-vaccine deadline
3 years, 2 months ago

Facing major campus disruption and firings, LAUSD extends staff COVID-vaccine deadline

LA Times  

A nurse gives a COVID-19 vaccine shot to special education assistant Roxanne Juarez at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School in August. “Our employees are one of the strongest assets that we have.” At the same time, she said, “we’re absolutely adamant about keeping our schools the safest possible environment — and vaccinations are clearly the pathway to keeping them safe.” …

Editorial: LAUSD is shrinking. That could be a good thing
3 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: LAUSD is shrinking. That could be a good thing

LA Times  

Students make their way to the front door of Normont Elementary School on the first day of in-class instruction on Aug. 16, as LAUSD officials welcomed back children and teachers. After schools closed for the pandemic, and after years of declining birth rates, everyone expected enrollment to drop even further this year in the Los Angeles Unified School District. About …

Who will follow L.A. school district in mandating vaccines for students?
3 years, 3 months ago

Who will follow L.A. school district in mandating vaccines for students?

LA Times  

A seventh-grader at San Fernando Middle School receives the first dose of the Pfiizer vaccine inside the school gym on Aug. 30. Many school districts are likely to adopt a wait-and-see approach — while also closely tracking how the mandate plays out in L.A. Unified, officials and experts said. But, Flint said, “when the second-largest school district in the country …

Los Angeles requires COVID-19 vaccine for students 12 and up
3 years, 3 months ago

Los Angeles requires COVID-19 vaccine for students 12 and up

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles board of education voted Thursday to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The Los Angeles Unified School District, which has more than 600,000 mostly Latino students, already tests all students and employees every week, requires masking indoors and outdoors …

L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district
3 years, 3 months ago

L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district

LA Times  

A nurse gives Eagle Rock senior Dean Iida a COVID-19 vaccination shortly after the start of the school year. All children 12 and older in Los Angeles public schools must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January to enter campus under an order approved Thursday by the Board of Education, the first such mandate among the nation’s largest school systems …

Editorial: Now’s the time to mandate vaccination for public school students
3 years, 3 months ago

Editorial: Now’s the time to mandate vaccination for public school students

LA Times  

The teachers of Los Angeles-area schools were ordered in August to bare their arms for vaccinations against COVID-19, and now they’re wondering: What about the students? United Teachers Los Angeles is calling for the L.A. Unified School District to mandate vaccination for all eligible students, which for now would mean those 12 and older, unless there is a compelling medical …

L.A. teachers union calls for vaccination mandate for eligible students, stricter quarantines
3 years, 3 months ago

L.A. teachers union calls for vaccination mandate for eligible students, stricter quarantines

LA Times  

A nurse gives a COVID-19 shot to Gizelle Carrillo, 14, at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School All L.A. Unified employees must be vaccinated by Oct. 15, and the teachers union has called for mandatory vaccinations for all eligible students. The Los Angeles teachers union is calling for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for all eligible students and stricter quarantine rules while raising …

Editorial: Mandatory vaccines and masks. LAUSD shows the right way to reopen schools in 2021
3 years, 4 months ago

Editorial: Mandatory vaccines and masks. LAUSD shows the right way to reopen schools in 2021

LA Times  

Los Angeles County can expect a rise in reported COVID-19 cases over the coming week as the Delta variant continues to spread. Some will be asymptomatic cases discovered by COVID testing of all students and staff by L.A. Unified schools — hundreds of thousands of tests every week. By finding cases that otherwise would have gone undiscovered, the schools will …

L.A. County coronavirus surge continues as schools prepare to reopen
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. County coronavirus surge continues as schools prepare to reopen

LA Times  

Students and parents wait in line last week to be tested for COVID-19 at Northridge Middle School. The Department of Public Health on Sunday recorded 3,356 new cases of the virus and eight related deaths but said the real number is likely higher due to weekend reporting delays. Officials said last week that the surge fueled by the highly transmissible …

LAUSD orders all teachers and staff to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15
3 years, 4 months ago

LAUSD orders all teachers and staff to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15

LA Times  

All employees in the Los Angeles Unified School District must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 15, interim Supt. “As part of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s efforts to provide the safest possible environment in which to learn and work, all district employees will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 15,” Reilly said in a …

Austin Beutner’s tenure as L.A. schools chief marked more by crisis than academic gains
3 years, 4 months ago

Austin Beutner’s tenure as L.A. schools chief marked more by crisis than academic gains

LA Times  

On his first day as Los Angeles schools superintendent, Austin Beutner visited 11 campuses in 12 hours, boarding a school bus before dawn and later slinging aside his suit jacket to take afternoon batting practice. “Beutner’s most important contribution may be the way that LAUSD responded to the pandemic,” said Tyrone Howard, a UCLA education professor who also directs the …

UC mandates COVID-19 vaccinations and will bar most students without them from campus
3 years, 5 months ago

UC mandates COVID-19 vaccinations and will bar most students without them from campus

LA Times  

A lone jogger runs past Royce Hall on a nearly empty UCLA campus. As the highly contagious Delta variant spreads amid lower vaccination rates among younger people, unvaccinated students without approved exemptions will be barred from in-person classes, events and campus facilities, including housing — and not all classes will be offered online, a UC memo outlining the mandate said. …

L.A. COVID-19 vaccination pace plunges as officials work to expand access
3 years, 7 months ago

L.A. COVID-19 vaccination pace plunges as officials work to expand access

LA Times  

Providers throughout Los Angeles County administered 144,000 fewer COVID-19 vaccine doses last week compared with the week prior — the clearest evidence yet that the demand for doses has dropped significantly. Along with the additional operating day, city officials said they will provide more opportunities for people to get vaccinated without having to make an appointment and open a new …

Appointments for first dose of COVID-19 vaccine drop by half in L.A. County, alarming public health officials
3 years, 7 months ago

Appointments for first dose of COVID-19 vaccine drop by half in L.A. County, alarming public health officials

LA Times  

Appointments for the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine have decreased by about 50% in Los Angeles County, alarming public health officials who call it a worrisome trend that reflects the slowdown in vaccination rates across the state and country. For the first time ever, we’ve had appointments at many vaccination sites that have not been filled,” said L.A. County …

COVID-19 vaccine inequities persist in L.A. County despite progress in underserved areas
3 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 vaccine inequities persist in L.A. County despite progress in underserved areas

LA Times  

Joel Jurez holds his dog, Yuki, as medical assistant Adrian Davis administers a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on Friday in Los Angeles. By comparison, 37.1% of L.A. County residents 16 and older had received at least one vaccine dose as of April 4, according to public health data. As of April 4, 22.7% of …

L.A. County gets another vaccine site, but supply remains critically low
3 years, 10 months ago

L.A. County gets another vaccine site, but supply remains critically low

LA Times  

Speaking at a new vaccine center at Cal State Los Angeles, Gov. During Tuesday’s event at Cal State L.A., Garcetti said, “We, right now, could do 150,000 doses a day” — many times more than the supply that’s coming in. As City Councilman Kevin de León put it: “If L.A. is the epicenter for COVID-19, then CD 14” — the …

Dangerous COVID-19 surge leads to hard shutdown of L.A. public schools
4 years ago

Dangerous COVID-19 surge leads to hard shutdown of L.A. public schools

LA Times  

Prospects for reopening campuses this school year dimmed Monday for hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles students with the hard shutdown of all in-person tutoring and special services amid a dangerous coronavirus surge — and officials declining to estimate when children could return to classrooms. The L.A. teachers union called Beutner’s decision “the right step.” “Educators wanted to be closer …

No place to study, hunger and inadequate computers hurt Eastside and South L.A. students
4 years, 3 months ago

No place to study, hunger and inadequate computers hurt Eastside and South L.A. students

LA Times  

Families wait in line in April at the Mar Vista Family Center for free food and headphones, which students use to screen out noise while studying at home. Los Angeles families with school-age children in Boyle Heights, South Los Angeles and Watts struggled with access to computers and adequate internet throughout the spring semester while facing job losses and food …

L.A. teachers union opposes opening campuses for students with disabilities, English learners
4 years, 3 months ago

L.A. teachers union opposes opening campuses for students with disabilities, English learners

LA Times  

L.A. teachers union President Cecily Myart-Cruz said Friday that the union would block an immediate, mandatory return of any teachers to campuses. L.A. Unified declined to answer questions about UTLA’s position, including about whether the district favored bringing back small groups of students with special needs, which prompted concerns from a local advocacy group. “We understand that there are both …

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