BREAKING: Los Angeles Unified, the second largest school district in the nation, announced it will close its 900 campuses serving about half a million students beginning on Monday in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Los Angeles school officials on Friday voted to shut down the nation’s second-largest school system effective Monday, citing concerns over the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The district has about 900 campuses serving more than 670,000 children and adult students.District officials said that they will continue meal programs and offer televised and online lessons in an attempt to help families.
While health officials had supported the district’s decision to keep schools operating, an increasing number of school districts throughout California and the nation have announced closures, including San Francisco Unified and several districts in Ventura County including Simi Valley, Moorpark and Oak Park. Also, governors in four states — Ohio, Maryland, New Mexico and Michigan — ordered the closing of all public schools.
“They’re relying on us for meals, for child care,” school board member Nick Melvoin said Thursday afternoon. If schools close, parents who have to go to work may be forced to take their children with them. Also, children in middle school and high school might congregate in public areas anyway, as teenagers tend to do, he said.
In a move that was both resourceful and desperate, Beutner entered into a partnership with PBS to provide educational programming on three different public television stations. KCET would offer high school-level programming. KLCS — which is operated by L.A. Unified — would offer content for grades 3 through 8. And KOCE would manage preschool through grade 2.
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