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Venice High School graduate Kensei Ono, 18, waits for his turn to be photographed while his mother Susie holds a placard featuring her son while taking part in the Venice High School Class of 2020 Senior Graduation Parade in Venice in June 2020.
Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Polaris
Venice High School graduate Kensei Ono, 18, waits for his turn to be photographed while his mother Susie holds a placard featuring her son while taking part in the Venice High School Class of 2020 Senior Graduation Parade in Venice in June 2020.
April 6, 2021
Hurtling toward the end of a hectic year, most K-12 and high school districts in California are intensely focused on reopening campuses and giving the Class of 2021 a final send-off to remember in June.
When Cindy Nichol, director of the Sacramento County Airport System, stepped into her job in October 2018, Sacramento International Airport was in rapid ascent. Following six years of steady growth, the airport again saw ridership surge. In 2019, passenger traffic rose by more than 1 million over the previous year, representing a 9.3 percent increase. After the first two months of 2020, the airport was on track to again clock a 1-million-passenger jump. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic grounded much of the airline industry last spring. In April 2020, the number of passengers plummeted almost 94 percent compared to April 2019. That severely threatened Nichol’s department because passenger volume and