Los Angeles school board to vote on student vaccine mandate
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The Los Angeles board of education has scheduled a vote on whether to require all students 12 and older to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to participate in on-campus instruction in the nation’s second-largest school district
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles board of education is expected to vote Thursday on whether to require students 12 and older to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend class on campus in the nation’s second-largest school district. The proposal, scheduled for discussion at a special afternoon meeting, would be one of the most aggressive measures taken by a major U.S. school district to protect children from infections. The Los Angeles Unified School District, which enrolls more than 600,000 mostly Latino students, already tests all students and employees every week, requires masking indoors and outdoors and has ordered employees to be vaccinated. Under the plan, students age 12 and up who participate in sports and other activities would need to be fully vaccinated by the end of October; those who aren’t would have until Dec. 19. “Although LAUSD has implemented the highest safety measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 at schools, vaccination of all eligible and non-exempt students provides the strongest protection to the health and safety of all students and staff in the LAUSD school communities,” the superintendent’s office said in a report to the board, adding that a recent rise in pediatric hospitalizations also spurred the move.More Related News