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A staffer at the front entrance of Cienega Elementary in West Adams checks a student's Daily Pass — the online QR code created through an L.A. Unified School District app that allows students access to campus on April 15, 2021.

Get Ready For LAUSD’s First Day: We Answer 8 Big Questions About Reopening Schools In A Pandemic

This school year will feel, not normal, but “familiar” — even if some LAUSD families aren’t ready for that.

After An Especially Long Lockdown, San Bernardino Schools Are Set To Reopen

The district was one of the few in Southern California to stick with distance learning last spring, as other school campuses reopened.

A student places a nasal swab from a COVID-19 test into a tube at an L.A. Unified School District screening site at San Fernando Middle School in March 2021.

LAUSD Requiring All Staff And Students, Vaccinated Or Not, To Take COVID-19 Tests Before New School Year Starts

Los Angeles Unified School District officials have announced they will require all students and employees — regardless of vaccination status — to get a COVID-19 test before the new school year begins on Aug. 16, and to participate in weekly testing.

A teacher in a yellow sweater talks to her students through Zoom.

LAUSD Extends The Deadline To Opt Out Of In-Person Schooling To Aug. 6

Parents have until Friday, July 30, to opt out of in-person instruction for their kids in the fall. Online instruction is still available, but it will differ from last year's distance learning.

Austin Beutner, outgoing superintendent of the L.A. Unified School District, poses for a picture in the library of Paul Revere Middle School in Pacific Palisades on Monday, June 28, 2021. His three-year tenure ended when his contract expired later in the week.

Was Austin Beutner The Change-Maker LAUSD Was Looking For?

In an exit interview, the outgoing L.A. schools superintendent says he did shake up the status quo as he promised — but by collaborating with the school district’s most powerful interests, not challenging them.

LAUSD Board Honors Departing Superintendent Austin Beutner

“You were the right man at the right time,” a former critic said.

First graders at Brainard Elementary demonstrate the very lengthy process of lining up, socially distanced, outside.

LAUSD’s Planning A Full-Time Reopening In Fall — But Many Black Families Prefer Distance Learning

A parent poll shows Black parents were most satisfied with distance learning — and concerned about "racism, bullying and low academic expectations" once students return in-person.

LAUSD Will Offer On-Campus Vaccinations In Middle, High Schools

Mobile teams will deliver shots on campuses once before school lets out, and once over the summer.

A man in a navy suit and purple tie bends down to chat with a young girl wearing a shiny pink coat. They are on a cement surface outside a one-story school building, and both are wearing masks.

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.

‘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.”

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]."

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.