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Minneapolis and the country lauded the guilty verdict against former Officer Derek Chauvin. The city has become a touchstone for what’s next in the movement for racial justice.
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Minneapolis Police Department a day after a white former officer was convicted of murdering
George Floyd, a Black man, during a police stop last year. The police force has been under growing pressure to reform since Floyd’s death sparked a wave of nationwide protests over racial discrimination in policing, and a broader national conversation around race and justice in the United States.
Still, many wonder whether a verdict against one police officer, rare as it may be, is enough to bring lasting change to law enforcement. “As we breathe in and as we exhale a collective sigh of relief in the name of George Floyd, we ain’t near done,” said
Brace yourselves, students and parents. Your L.A. Unified School District campus may be reopening in April for the first time in potentially 13 months, but the place won t be quite the same.
You may be prepared for the now-familiar COVID-19 countermeasures face mask requirements, social-distancing warning signs, hand sanitizer stations.
But are you ready for a kindergarten classroom without shared toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or even a circle-time rug? Parent Chaka Forman wasn t. 4:33
Support for LAist comes from This make me sad, Forman said as he toured the Venice classroom where his son once attended kindergarten. This was a vibrant room full of life, color, activity.
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Recent coronavirus testing has revealed 177 infections among staff and students at Los Angeles-area campuses poised to reopen, underscoring the importance of the district’s mandatory internal program, L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner said Monday.
But officials provided few contextual details, including where these cases emerged or how many tests were conducted over the period that the infections were found.
Meanwhile, some parents have had difficulty obtaining tests at 43 campus-based sites across the L.A. Unified School District, and other parents continue to object to the testing as a condition for returning to campus. While the district mandates this testing, local health authorities do not.
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Parents file first of its kind personal injury lawsuit against UTLA, LAUSD over school closures
LOS ANGELES - Parents in Los Angeles are suing the L.A. Unified School District and the teachers union (UTLA) for continued school closures during the pandemic, alleging that their children have suffered emotionally and academically.
The personal injury lawsuit is the first of its kind in the country according to Timothy Snowball, an attorney with the Freedom Foundation who is representing the parents pro bono in their lawsuit. The scientific consensus is clear, schools can be reopened, Snowball said. Children like our clients in this lawsuit have been suffering needlessly because of the political demands of UTLA which have absolutely nothing not do with the health and safety of teachers or students.