Kyle Stokes

California lawmakers have urged public schools to extend their school years, hoping additional days in the classroom will make up for teacher-student interactions lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.

LAUSD's superintendent says taking California’s benchmark standardized tests won't be a good use of classroom time this year.

Scenes from kindergarten and elementary schools, as some students return to the physical classroom for the first time, after over a year of distanced at-home learning.

“We’ve set, I believe, a new national standard” for COVID-19 safety in schools, LAUSD’s superintendent said on the eve of campuses reopening.

LAUSD staff have made their recommendation to extend the coming school year. School board members still have to vote on it.

LAUSD begins reopening campuses this week, along with school districts in Pasadena, Cerritos, Alhambra and other cities.

A group of parents is suing LAUSD, hoping to force the school district’s leaders to bring more students back to campuses full-time.

That will amount to at least one extra custodian for every L.A. Unified School District campus.

The school district vaccine clinics are located mostly in South L.A. and the Eastside, with a few in the East San Fernando Valley as well.

Of the county's 80 school districts, officials say 49 of them will have at least partially returned to campuses as of this week. We have a list of the new reopenings.

LAUSD employees are working around the clock (literally) to ensure classrooms are ready to welcome students back.

Elementary students in L.A. County’s second-largest school district — Long Beach Unified — will start returning to campuses this week, along with students in several smaller districts.