The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the country, has announced that it is planning to return to full in-person learning in the fall.
LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner announced that students will be able to return to campus five days a week this August, but there will still be an online option for those who choose to or need it.
"While we are looking forward to welcoming all students back to schools in August, for students who are unable or choose not to participate at schools for in-person instruction, an online option must remain in place for the next school year," he told ABC-7.
Additionally, LAUSD is ramping up the vaccination efforts to try to get some 300,000 kids their shots before the end of the school year.
The district is offering Pfizer vaccines at 250 schools and will be repeated over the summer.
According to a tweet from LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner, the program will build on other relief efforts that the district offered throughout the pandemic, which included "130 million meals, 40 million school supply items, 500,000 students with computer and internet access [and] 1.3 million COVID tests."
"What we're trying to do is to make sure our students have access in a place they know, they trust," Beutner told NBC4 in an interview on Thursday. "Young adults need agency."
There are also permanent vaccination sites at the following schools:
Burbank Middle School: 6460 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles 90042
Carson High School: 22328 S Main St, Carson 90745
Crenshaw High School: 5010 11th Ave, Los Angeles 90043
Elizabeth Learning Center: 4811 Elizabeth St, Cudahy 90201
Fremont High School: 7676 San Pedro St, Los Angeles 90003
Gage Middle School: 2880 E Gage Ave, Huntington Park 90255
Garfield High School: 5101 E 6th St, East Los Angeles 90022
Hollenbeck Middle School: 2510 E 6th St, Los Angeles 90023
Jefferson High School: 1319 E 41st St, Los Angeles 90011
Lincoln High School: 3501 N Broadway, Los Angeles 90031
Maclay Middle School: 12540 Pierce St, Pacoima 91331
Manual Arts High School: 4131 Vermont Ave, Los Angeles 90037
Markham Middle School: 1650 E 104th St, Los Angeles 90002
Monroe High School: 9229 Haskell Ave, North Hills 91343
Panorama High School: 8015 Van Nuys Blvd, Panorama City 91402
Santee Education Complex: 1921 Maple Ave, Los Angeles 90011
South East High School: 2720 Tweedy Blvd, South Gate 90280
Stevenson Middle School: 725 S Indiana St, Los Angeles 90023
Washington Preparatory High School: 10860 Denker Ave, Los Angeles 90047
The LAUSD and its main teacher's union are still working on a deal for their return to campuses full time in the fall. UTLA president Cecily Myart-Cruz says they have presented a plan to the district that it says will give students the support they'll need in the Fall, to help them recover from the long closures forced by COVID-19.
Among other things, the union wants the district to maintain current health and safety protocols in the Fall, have smaller class sizes, hire a lot more school psychologists and counselors, and bring in more special-education providers.
In New York City, Mayor Bill De Blasio had a big announcement Monday morning, saying NYC Schools will fully reopen for in-person learning in September — with no remote option for students.
“It’s good news: [In] New York City public schools, 1 million kids will be back in their classroom in September, all in person, no remote,” Hizzoner said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“We’re going to be back strong, ready, safe. COVID is plummeting in this city, I’m happy to say.”
This school year, around 60% of kids were kept at home by parents. New York is one of the first big cities to remove the option of remote learning altogether for the coming school year. And unlike, Los Angeles, the New York system has so far had no campus-based vaccination program.