Come January, all students in the Los Angeles Unified School District who are eligible may be required to get their COVID-19 vaccines to attend in-person classes.
The district’s board of educators proposed the mandate, which will be debated and voted on at a special meeting Thursday.
If passed, the mandate would require all students 12 and older who are eligible for the vaccine to get their COVID-19 vaccine in full. It would first affect students enrolled in extracurriculars, who would be required to have at least one dose by Oct. 3 and full vaccination no later than Oct. 31.
All other students would have to be fully vaccinated by no later than Dec. 19 to return to campus on Jan. 11, 2022.
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Nick Melvoin, the vice president of the school board, said vaccine mandates are nothing new for public schools.
“We have many that are required - polio, measles, rubella, hepatitis - and the advice of our medical director, the advice of Dr. Fauci, of county public health…is to include the COVID-19 vaccine for those who are eligible.”
Melvoin told KNX that he is confident the entire board will vote to approve the mandate.
If the board approves it, LAUSD would be the first in the country to enact a mandate on student vaccination.
The meeting will take place Thursday at 2 p.m. and stream live on the board’s website.