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LAUSD chairman Austin Beutner at a Monday briefing confirmed plans for a mid-April opening for preschool and elementary school students and targeted the end of April for secondary schools. Elementary schools could have opened this month. However, the District has been negotiating with the United Teachers Los Angeles…

Schools will not reopen in the Los Angeles Unified School District until at least January, officials said in a published interview, citing COVID-19 infection rates. The leaders of the LAUSD <a…

New York City Tuesday delayed its public school opening as the teachers union threatened to strike over lack of clarity around health and safety precautions and class preparations. Given the city and state's under control COVID-19 numbers, the nation's largest school district had planned to open in-person Sept. 10…

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…

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education has conceded that its distance-learning plans aren't perfect for the fall semester, which starts next week. But now that students and teachers have had time to adjust to the new normal, they hope for a better experience than the abrupt crisis that…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Friday gave a green light for schools across the state including New York City to reopen in the fall – unlike Los Angeles, the nation's second largest school district, where there's no reopening date set and classes will start online. New York state "will continue to monitor the…

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported Tuesday that the region comprising the City of Los Angeles, Pasadena and Long Beach has 1,901 confirmed new cases of coronavirus and 57 new deaths over the past 24 hours. Those numbers will likely rise however, the agency warned today, after confirming that…

Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday that when the 2020-21 academic year starts August 18 it will not be with students at school facilities, owing to concerns about the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the city and across much of the country. The decision came after city’s…

With about a month to go until the start of the new school year, the battle lines are being drawn over whether US students will return to campuses or continue online schooling. The stakes being anted include federal and state funding, health and safety issues, and union rules and compliance. None of the potential…

The Los Angeles teachers union has called for district school campuses to remain closed and online learning to continue when the 2020-2021 school year starts on Aug. 18. The UTLA posted a notice on its website Thursday night calling on administrators to implement the request. The union also issued a report that…

The Los Angeles Unified School District will honor the Class of 2020 with an hour-long special featuring familiar faces from the worlds of entertainment, politics, and sports. The virtual graduation ceremony is set to air Monday, and will include appearances by Ellen DeGeneres, Kenya Barris, rapper-producer Lil Jon…

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…