An interim agreement between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Teachers’ Union was reached on Tuesday night to reopen schools from mid-April, according to several reports.
The deal would include face-to-face daily learning for elementary school students, but it still depends heavily on online instruction for older students, reported the Los Angeles Times.
Elementary and high school students would learn in class two days a week, but at home on the other days. Students would stay in the same class all day instead of changing rooms between periods and distance learning from multiple teachers while sitting in the same room, according to the Times. Families would also be allowed to keep their children in distance learning.
“As we both said some time ago, the right way to reopen schools should include the highest standard of COVID safety in schools, continuous virus reduction in the communities we serve and access to vaccination for school staff,” United Teachers Los Angeles Cecily-Myart Cruz and LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner said in a joint statement. “This agreement achieves that set of shared goals. It is our shared commitment to the highest standards of safety and the spirit of trust and collaboration that we will take back to schools.”
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Elementary school students would attend half a day every day, allowing for smaller classes.
April was decided because it would allow educators and other school staff to be vaccinated and achieve maximum immunity to shooting before returning to school, which could take up to six weeks, according to the Times.
According to a timetable suggested by the school district, elementary school students would be the first to return on April 19 and older students would follow in early May. An official date has not been agreed with the union.
According to the agreement, the county would be forced to descend to the “red layer” of the most serious “purple layer”, which is expected in a few days, as the number of cases decreases.
Schools have been closed since March 13 last year.
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The Agreement has yet to be ratified by the members.