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Who is Open, Who is Not

Ready, set, get ready to open K-12 schools. Not quite so fast.

• By Ralph C. Jensen
• July 14, 2020

Plans to open schools were moving along quite nicely, until now. President Donald Trump and his advisors from the Education Department are pushing that schools open on time. The coronavirus might have other plans.

Infection rates continue to rise nationwide, and there are new hot spots popping up.

Opinions conflict and there are no shortages of contradictory plans emerging

Los Angeles and San Diego. After planning to open, or some sort of reopening plan was about to be put in place, both school districts announced earlier this week that schools will not open for in-person instruction when the academic year starts in August. Remote learning will continue, which was implemented in March. These two school districts are the largest districts to halt plans for any in-person learning.

In coming weeks, Los Angeles Unified School District plans to share more details on the start of school, but for now the plan is to welcome students back to class when it is safe to do so. LAUSD is the second largest district in the United States.

The United Teacher Los Angeles, a union that represents the 35,000 teachers in LAUSD asked schools to remain closed as coronavirus cases continued rising. The teachers union sought to focus on remote learning, for now.

"It is time to take a stand against Trump's dangerous, anti-science agenda that puts the lives of our members, our students, and our families at risk," said UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz in a statement. "We all want to physically open schools and be back with our students, but lives hang in the balance. Safety has to be the priority. We need to get this right for our communities."

The decision to keep schools closed in Los Angeles and San Diego goes against mounting pressure from the federal government to open schools as soon as possible.

President Trump reiterated his call for schools to reopen on Monday, threatening to withhold funding from states that refuse to host in-person classes. Trump cited a notion that children's immune systems are "much stronger" than adults.

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