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Brainard Avenue Elementary School principal Victor Yzaguirre (right) shares a lighthearted moment with a preschooler during recess time on April 13, 2021 -- the campus' first day hosting students since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LAUSD Abandons Plan To Extend The Upcoming School Year

LAUSD school board members have voted on a plan to start the new semester on Aug. 17, 2021 and have a three-week winter break — which is the district's norm.

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How — And Why — Academic Researchers Are Taking On Anti-Asian Hate

Asian American activists say more research on their communities could dismantle harmful stereotypes.

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LAUSD Zoom in a Room Student Middle School

‘They’re Taller!’ Teachers And Students Are Seeing Each Other In Person After A Long Absence

Because students often leave their Zoom cameras off, one teacher said, “I was afraid I wouldn’t know who they were.”

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How Can I Start A New Career? Here's Some Expert Advice

Missed our live, virtual event answering your questions? We’ve put together some of the key highlights.

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Students at Simon Rodia High School, an L.A. Unified School District continuation school in South Gate, pose for a photograph with Superintendent Austin Beutner on Tues., April 27, 2021, after a return-to-campus ceremony.

Few LAUSD High Schoolers Are Returning To Campus — But Those Who Are Need A Place To Learn

For some students, their high school diplomas are at stake: “If I’m at school, I know I’ll finish [the work]."

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A small girl in a pink jacket, light blue jeans and yellow sneakers climbs up the red stairs of a jungle gym.

LAUSD Will Reopen School Playgrounds Next Week

The jungle gyms will get the same electrostatic sanitizing treatment as school classrooms and hand-washing will be required before play.

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Want (Need) To Start A New Career But Don't Know How? We Got You

On Wed., April 28 at 6:30 p.m., we'll be hosting a virtual Q&A session with higher education and employment experts to answer your questions live.

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L.A. Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner (left) poses a question to the students in Fleming Middle School teacher Stacey Takamoto's sixth grade Zoom class on Monday, April 26, 2021.

LAUSD Middle And High School Campuses Are Now Reopening. Here’s What To Expect

Older LAUSD students face a choice as campuses reopen: 'Do I stay on Zoom at home, where I can go to the fridge and not wear shoes?' For many, it's a no-brainer.

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FILE - Megan Reilly, then the L.A. Unified School District's Chief Financial Officer, embraces former LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King during a board meeting on March 14, 2017. Reilly was leaving LAUSD after a decade for a job in Santa Clara County's Office of Education. She returned to LAUSD in 2019 as a deputy superintendent.

LAUSD Board Names Deputy Superintendent As Austin Beutner’s Interim Successor

Megan Reilly has been with LAUSD for 12 of the last 14 years.

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California Public Universities Announce A Vaccine Requirement. It’s Complicated

University of California and California State University leaders said vaccines will be required for returning students — with one important condition.

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The front cover of the book The Trouble With Penguins. A small boy with a white hooded coat holding a marshmallow roasting stick and a penguin share surprised faces.

What Marshmallow-Roasting Penguins Can Teach Kids — And Grown-Ups — About The Climate Crisis

Los Angeles based children’s author Rebecca Jordan-Glum on her “completely ridiculous approach to a very serious topic.”

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Austin Beutner Will Step Down As LAUSD Superintendent In June

Austin Beutner started his tenure by battling LAUSD's teachers' union. He is ending it with high marks from rank-and-file members who had deeply distrusted him.

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