Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Many Los Angeles students have not seen the inside of a classroom since March. Now, after a brutal winter surge and nearly a year of remote learning, falling coronavirus case rates in Los Angeles County have finally cleared the state threshold to reopen elementary schools. But Monday’s big announcement hardly means campus doors are swinging open across L.A. County. Just because a district can reopen doesn’t mean it will immediately do so. It’s a local decision based on the readiness of all concerned, including the school system, as L.A. County Office of Education superintendent Debra Duardo put it.