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This is the June 28, 2021, edition of the 8 to 3 newsletter about school, kids and parenting. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox every Monday.
Hi, and welcome to the 8 to 3 newsletter. I’m Laura Newberry, a reporter on the education team, and I’m filling in for the vacationing Sonja Sharp.
In the summer of 2020, it was unclear when public schools in Southern California might reopen. At the same time, we were also learning more about how COVID-19 is spread.
We knew by then that we were far less likely to contract the virus outdoors. So as many of us pondered how K-12 education might resume as the pandemic raged on, there seemed to be one obvious solution: Teach kids outside.
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By City News Service
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HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Weeks before stepping down as head of the nation s second-largest public school system, Superintendent Austin Beutner today hailed what amounted to an overhaul of the Los Angeles Unified amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and he urged continued partnerships between schools and the community to set a “new standard of excellence.
Speaking from the stage of the iconic Hollywood Bowl, Beutner delivered a State of the Schools Address designed to “celebrate public education, and it served to recap a tumultuous year that saw an on-the-fly rethinking of how students learn amid a global pandemic. And it offered a positive view toward the future thanks to progress he outlined not just from the past year, but during his three years at the helm of the district.