SAN FRANCISCO – These are scenes from a battlefield. Full intensive care units. Doctors and nurses working for hours without sleep. Waves of patients dying.
Across California, a post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 spike is ravaging cities and counties that once had been models for how to keep coronavirus cases low. To date, the state has logged 1.9 million cases and 22,000 deaths, with new records seemingly set daily. I feel like someone at war; it s chaotic all the time, said Erin McIntosh, 38, a mother of four who works as a rapid response nurse at Riverside Community Hospital southeast of Los Angeles. She said the National Guard is scheduled to help with care soon.
Los Angeles Unified School District had 45,896 seventh grade students during 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education. Los Angeles Unified School District had the highest number of seventh grade students enrolled in California.
According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will remain off-limits to students when the new school year begins in January due to the continued community surge of COVID-19, Superintendent Austin Beutner said today.
“While we re working toward a safe reopening as soon as possible, given these numbers and the state s health guidelines, it will not be possible for us to reopen school campuses by the time next semester starts on Jan. 11, Beutner said. “We ll remain in online-only mode until community health conditions improve significantly.
There was very little hope that schools would be returning to in-person learning in any fashion in January, so Beutner s comments came as no surprise. The district last week announced a new labor agreement with United Teachers Los Angeles, extending the protocols for distance learning through the upcoming semester.
LAUSD to keep campuses closed when new semester starts in January amid COVID-19 surge
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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will remain off-limits to students when the new semester begins in January due to the continued community surge of COVID-19, Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday. While we re working toward a safe reopening as soon as possible, given these numbers and the state s health guidelines, it will not be possible for us to reopen school campuses by the time next semester starts on Jan. 11, Beutner said. We ll remain in online-only mode until community health conditions improve significantly.