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With Black and Hispanic youth being hit especially hard, the percentage of students meeting math and English standards dropped significantly during the pandemic.
With 20% of classes lacking central cooling systems, some parents have considered keeping their kids home or staging a walkout amid this week's heat wave.
LBUSD spokesperson Chris Eftychiou confirmed this week that the district will not require masks for students or employees to begin the school year.
Superintendent Jill Baker said the district did everything it could to plan for the return of students after their education was interrupted by a global pandemic. “But it wasn’t enough,” she said, adding this past school year was “rocky.”
This was the first closure of a district campus due to hand, foot and mouth disease in recent memory, according to an LBUSD spokesman.