By City News Service
Dec 14, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles Unified School District campuses would be an ideal setting for administering COVID-19 vaccines to students and their families, Superintendent Austin Beutner said today, while again imploring elected officials to provide financial support for schools to prepare for an eventual return to in-person instruction.
Noting that more than 230,000 COVID-19 tests have been conducted on school campuses, Beutner said the campuses are geographically positioned to provide access to the vaccine first to essential school workers and eventually to students and families.
“The country faces an enormous challenge in making sure the vaccine is made available to essential workers, like the staff who work in our schools as well as those who have been most impacted by the virus: low-income communities of color like those served by our schools, Beutner said in an address to the school community.
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Ann Crisp and her 5 year-old son Lennon outside their home in Sacramento. Ann decided to keep her son in a private preschool instead of enrolling him in a distance-learning kindergarten class within the Sacramento City Unified School District.
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Ann Crisp says her family tried doing “Zoom-school” for their 5-year-old son Lennon earlier this year, but it just didn’t work.
She works at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so she set her son up in front of a computer next to her desk to make sure he paid attention during class. But her son has minor speech and motor skill delays, and it was frustrating for him to sit through three 45-minute online sessions, she says.