Most LA schools still have some steps to follow before reopening
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Schools and districts still have some steps to take before they can reopen, if they want to.
The threshold for letting elementary schools reopen is five days of new COVID-19 cases of 25 or fewer per 100,000 people living in the county.
But once reaching that point - which Los Angeles has - the only schools that can start to reopen are those which have already obtained waivers or submitted COVID-19 safety plans in advance.
There are extensive safety requirements that schools must follow as part of those safety plans, including social distancing, masking requirements, sufficient ventilation and testing programs.
» Los Angeles County will open up vaccine eligibility to some additional essential workers, including teachers, on March 1. Grocery store staff, child-care providers, and other key people will be included in the group, expected to add around 1.3 million people to the number currently eligible in the county.
» Public schools may soon be allowed to reopen, but LAUSD teachers don’t think it is safe yet. United Teachers Los Angeles proposes waiting until the county fully exits the state’s ‘purple tier,’ which indicates widespread COVID-19, a lower community transmission rate, for schools to have “strict multi-layered mitigation strategies in place,” and for all staff to have access to vaccinations before sending educators back to campus. [LAist]
LAUSD opens COVID vaccine location, looks to operate mass site at SoFi Stadium
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The Los Angeles Unified School District, which opened its first school-based COVID-19 vaccination center, announced Wednesday a proposal to operate a large-scale site at SoFi Stadium dedicated to inoculating public and private school teachers and staff once they become eligible.
LAUSD plans to operate a large-scale vaccination site in conjunction with the Rams at SoFi Stadium, serving public and private school teachers, administrators and school staff, who will become eligible for shots on March 1. Returning students, teachers and staff to campus in the safest way possible is essential to the well-being of our entire community, Superintendent Austin Beutner said. A bus driver takes students to school, a principal unlocks the front door, a teacher leads in the classroom, a cafeteria worker prepares lunch and a custodian keeps the school clean. They re all connected at school.
The Los Angeles Unified School District today will open its first school-based COVID-19 vaccination center, but shots will only be offered to people who qualify for the inoculations as health care workers or who are age 65 or over.
The Los Angeles Unified School District Wednesday opened its first school-based COVID-19 vaccination center, but shots will only be offered to people who qualify for the inoculations as health care workers or who are age 65 or over.