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As the Los Angeles Unified School District starts a new academic year this week via online learning it's pairing that with a hugely ambitious testing and tracing program that Superintendent Austin Beutner called the best chance to get back into the classroom. Beutner announced plans to test the almost 75,000 staff and…

Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday that the 2020-2021 academic year will start as planned August 18, regardless whether campuses in the nation’s second-largest school district will be reopened by that time. LAUSD schools have been shut down since March 16 because of the corona…

LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner made it official Monday, saying all schools in the nation’s second-largest district will be physically closed for the rest of the 2019-2020 academic year and through summer school. The district has been shut down since March 16 because of the coronavirus crisis. Most recently…

UPDATE, SUNDAY A.M.: Neither side appears ready to back down in the ongoing debate over who has the authority to close New York City Schools for the remainder of the school year. A day after Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city’s schools were closing, Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to say that the final decision…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leaders of the White House’s coronavirus task force, said US schools will be able to safely reopen in the fall because of progress in battling the disease. That long-range forecast is at odds with the current Los Angeles Unified School District plans, which are still targeting a May 1…