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PRESS RELEASES
Parents Call on LAUSD School Board to Save Successful Reading and Math Program
PST Message to LAUSD on Avoiding Strike
PST Supports UTLA Rallies and Beyond Recovery Plan
PST Responds to Lack of District Communication on the LAUSD Hack and Data Release
PST Invites Community Members and Media to Attend Gun Violence Vigil
PST Reacts to LAUSD Postponement of Vaccine Mandate
PST Reacts to Optional Masking in LAUSD
PST Comments on Superintendent's 100-Day Plan
PST Welcomes New LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho
PST Urges District to Baseline Test Students and Staff Prior to Start of Spring Semester
PST Responds to Vaccine Mandate Delay for Students
PST Reacts to Hiring of New Superintendent
PST Comments on LAUSD Spring Covid Protocols
PST Reacts to Vaccine Approval for Children Ages 5-11
PST Supports Statewide Student Vaccine Mandate
PST Supports UTLA and LAUSD Tentative Agreement
PST Opposes Student Centered Funding in LAUSD
PST Supports Vaccine Mandate for LAUSD Students
PST Reacts to District's Continuity of Learning Plan
PST Releases a Covid-19 Dashboard for LAUSD Schools
PST Endorses A Vaccine Mandate for LAUSD
PST Applauds LAUSD New Testing Requirements
PST Unveils Its New Website
PST Bids Austin Beutner Farewell
PST Responds to LAUSD Superintendent Resignation
PST Opposes School Calendar Extension for 2021-22
PST Denounces LAUSD & UTLA Lawsuits
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Some Parent Groups Proposing Monday "Sit-Outs" At Schools To Protest Against Vaccine Mandates- CBS
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Facing Major Campus Disruption And Firings, LAUSD Extends Staff COVID-Vaccine Deadline - LA Times
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Staff Coronavirus Vaccine Mandate Spurs Changes at LAUSD Schools And Protests, Too - Daily News
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LAUSD Extends Deadline For Employees To Be Vaccinated Against COVID - CBS
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Inside The Issues: Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks At LAUSD Schools- Spectrum
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Gov. Newsome Mandates COVID Vaccines For All Eligible Students in California - KNX1070
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LAUSD Strikes Deal With Teachers Union to Provide Instruction to Quarantined Students - Daily News
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CDC Panel Green-Lights Pfizer Booster For Some Adults While Newsom Mulls Vaccine Mandate For Kids 12 & Older - CBS
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LAUSD Will Require Coronavirus Vaccines For Students 12 and Up - Spectrum
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LAUSD Board Votes To Require COVID-19 Vaccinations for Students Over 12 - CBS
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LAUSD to Require COVID-19 Vaccination For Most On-Campus Students 12 and Older - ABC
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LAUSD Students Will Soon Have to Add Vaccination Proof to the District's Daily Pass App - Dot LA
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LA Unified Becomes Largest School District To Mandate Covid Vaccine For Students - EdSource
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While Some California Parents Praise K-12 COVID Vaccine Mandate, Others Call It Premature - KQED
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15 Teachers Share Their Biggest Wishes for the New School Year - E! News
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In Los Angeles, Price For Admission At Nation’s Second-Largest School District Is A Negative Covid Test - Washington Post
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Nearly 2,000 LA Students, Staff Test Positive for COVID-19 - New York Post
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1,893 L.A. Students, Staff Tested Positive For Coronavirus Last Week, Group Reports - LA Times
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Quarantined Students Will Soon Have Livestream Access To Their Classrooms - CBS
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Grupo De Padres En Los Ángeles Crea Una Base De Datos Para Mostrar El Número De Contagiados En Las Escuelas - Univsion
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LA County Identifies COVID-19 Outbreak At Grant Elementary School - KCAL
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It's In the Data': One Parent's Quest to Make School COVID Case Counts More Transparent - Dot.la
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Advocacy Group Creates LAUSD-Wide Dashboard Of Positive COVID-19 Cases In Each School - KCAL
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LA County Identifies COVID-19 Outbreak At Grant Elementary School - CBS
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Report: Nearly 1,900 Los Angeles Unified Students and Staff Test Positive for COVID-19 - KNX1070
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LAUSD Parents Create COVID Dashboard - CBS
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Nearly 1,900 LAUSD Students, Staff Tested Positive For Coronavirus Last Week, Group Reports - KTLA
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Parents Concerned Over What Will Happen If LAUSD Students or Staff Are Exposed To Or Catch COVID 19 - CBS
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More than 3,600 LAUSD Students And Staff Test Positive In Baseline Testing Prior To Start Of Classes - CBS
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LAUSD Orders All Teachers and Staff to Be Fully Vaccinated By Oct. 15 - LA Times
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California Gov. Newsom Orders School Employees To Get Vaccinated Or Be Tested Regularly - LA Times
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LAUSD Teachers Open Up in Virtual Town Hall About Returning to In-Person Learning - CBS
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LAUSD Community Members Show Support For State’s Vax-Or-Test Health Order - Daily News
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LAUSD Parents Speak Out About Changes As Their Children Near 1 Week Back On Campus - CBS
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Growing Concerns As Students and Teachers Return to Classrooms - NBC Nightly News
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LAUSD to Require Testing of Students, Staff Regardless of Vaccination Status - LA Times
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LAUSD To Require Students, Staff Be Tested Weekly For COVID When In-Person Instruction Resumes - CBS
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Was Austin Beutner the Change-Maker LAUSD Was Looking For? - LAIST
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I’ve Still Got Another Chapter Left in Me: For LAUSD’s Beutner, A Turbulent Time But No Regrets - Los Angeles Daily News
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Letters to the Editor: Thank the teachers’ union for LAUSD’s extremely low COVID case count - LA Times
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LAUSD Abandons Plans to Extend the Upcoming School Year - LAIST
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Parent Group Sets Demands For LAUSD Superintendent Search - Patch
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LA Schools Chief Beutner Will Depart LAUSD When Contract Runs Out in June - Daily News
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LAUSD, UTLA Reach Tentative Agreement On April Return To Campus - CBS
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North Hollywood Private School Staff Receive First Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine, Prompting Questions - CBS
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2023
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LAUSD Shakes Up a Highly Praised Academic Initiative, Angering Parents & Teachers - LA Times
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A Day of School Stabbings, Crashes and Suspected Fentanyl Overdoses Sparks Alarm at LAUSD - LA Times
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LAUSD Strike: School Workers in the Nation’s Second-Largest District go on Strike, Shutting Down Schools - CNN
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LA School Workers Strike for Better Wages and Conditions - PBS
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Enough is Enough: L.A. School District Workers Demand Historic Raise During Three-Day Strike - The 19th
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LAUSD Superintendent Pleads with Union to Resume Bargaining Amid Mammoth Strike - Daily News
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Parents Group Supports LAUSD Workers Strike -KNX
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LAUSD Schools Closed After Last-Minute Negotiation Plans With Union Fall Flat - ABC
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L.A. Unified Strike Would Close Schools. What Are Child-Care Options? - LA Times
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Los Angeles Public School Unions to Strike for Three Days Next Week - KTLA
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LAUSD Says It Can Meet 24/7 With Union to Avoid Three Day Strike and School Shutdowns - LA Times
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LAUSD Unions to Announce Timing of Three-Day Strike That Would Shut Down Schools - LA Times
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After a Year Leading Los Angeles Unified, Carvalho Faces Challenges to Improve Learning- EdSource
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LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho Ends First Year With Bold Plans - LA Times
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Millions in LAUSD Hand Sanitizer Goes to Waste - KCAL
2022
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Only 1 in 9 Los Angeles Students Will Attend Extra Learning Days. What Happened? - LA Times
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LA Schools Grapple With Ban on Nearby Homeless Encampments - EdSource
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Kelly Gonez Declares Victory in LAUSD Board Election. But Marvin Rodriguez Hasn't Conceded - LAist
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Hackers Didn’t Get ‘Widespread Access’ to Sensitive Information in Cyberattack, LAUSD Says - Daily News
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Massive LAUSD Cyber Attack Described as ‘Criminal” as School Goes on and FBI Investigates - LA Times
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Teacher Shortage Driven by Low Salary, Burnout - Bloomberg
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LAUSD Parents Seek Relief From Extreme Heat in School Yards And on Campuses - Daily News
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How the Nationwide Teacher Shortage Impacts Schools - CBS
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Los Angeles Unified To Enter School Year With Fewer Classroom Vacancies, District Says - EdSource
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For ‘Lockdown Generation’ School Shootings Are Their Reality - Associated Press
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LAUSD Facing 30% Drop in Student Enrollment Within The Decade - CBS
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How LAUSD Superintendent’s Online Presence Fosters Connections - EdSource
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LAUSD Indoor Mask-Wearing Mandate Lifts Wednesday - Spectrum
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Los Angeles Unified School District Reaches Agreement to End School Mask Mandate - LAist
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LAUSD Plans to Lift Indoor Mask Mandate By March 23 - KCAL
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It's About Time They Lifted It:’ LAUSD to End Indoor Mask Requirement For Staff, Students - CBS
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Parents Protest LAUSD Mask Mandate; Negotiations Continue - Spectrum
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In Union Poll, 58% of L.A. Unified Teachers Want to Keep Mandatory Masking - LA Times
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LAUSD Students Won't Be Taking Masks Off Monday - Daily News
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Some L.A. Schools Face Uncertain Futures as Student Enrollment Declines Dramatically - LA Times
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LAUSD Super Moms’ Advocacy Group is Pushing District to Communicate Better - KCRW
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New Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Outlines Priorities in 100-Day Plan - EdSource
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LAUSD’s Outdoor Mask Mandate Officially Ends For Students, Staff At All Campuses - CBS
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Supervisors Barger And Hahn Criticize Health Department’s Continued Indoor Mask Mandate - CBS
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California Will Not Immediately Lift Mask Mandate for Schools - CBS
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As Mask Mandates Ease, Should California Schools Be Next? - LA Times
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Parents Supporting Teachers- A View of Advocacy From the Trenches - Patch
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Substitutes Replace Sick Teachers To Begin Spring Semester In LAUSD - CBS
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Testing Surge Continues For Students Set To Return To Class On Tuesday - CBS
2021
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LAUSD to Consider Delaying Banning Unvaccinated Students From Campus - Daily News
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LAUSD Vaccine Mandate Live Updates - Spectrum
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LAUSD Considers Pushing Back Vaccine Mandate for Students - CBS
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Alberto Carvahlo, Head of Public Schools in Miami-Dade County Named Next LAUSD Superintendent - KTLA
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LAUSD School Board Chooses New chief, Longtime Florida Superintendent Carvalho - Daily News
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Los Angeles Unified Names Miami's Alberto Carvalho As Next Superintendent - EdSource
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LAUSD Student Wishlist Needs Donations - CBS
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Advocacy Group Creates Amazon Wish List For Students In Need This Holiday Season - CBS
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Teachers Union Wants LAUSD to Delay Major Changes to COVID-19 Protocols - Daily News
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No L.A. Unified Vaccine Mandate So Far for Students Ages 5-11 - Los Angeles Times
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Why One Mom Allowed Her Child To Take Part In COVID-19 Vaccine Trial - Daily News
2020
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Mid-semester, Many L.A. Students are Drifting, Beset With Anxiety and Struggling in Class - LA Times
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Scott Schmerelson is the Apparent Winner of LAUSD School Board - LAIST
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LAUSD Campuses with Low Enrollment Get Additional Relief to Save Teachers - Daily News
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LAUSD Teachers Face Displacement Due To Pandemic-Related Low Enrollment - CBS
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Online school? In-person? How Parents Are Making Their Own Fall 2020 Decisions as COVID-19 Squabbles Continue - USA Today
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Food Trucks Adapt to Social Distancing Rules to Serve Neighborhoods - Spectrum
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Los Angeles Unified to Close All Schools - LA Times
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Panicked Parents Pick Up Kids, Try to Figure Out Future After Coronavirus School Closures - LA Times
2019
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LA Teachers on Strike: A Guide for LAUSD Parents - LAIST
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2,000 Teachers, Students, Parents Make Massive Human Chain to Show Solidarity During LAUSD Strike - ABC
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With a Strike Looming, LAUSD Parents Prepare to Support Teachers and Each Other - Spectrum
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As LA Unified Pushes New Legal Bid to Postpone Strike, Parents and Teachers Make Their Picket Signs - Daily News
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Tale of Two LAUSD Schools Los Angeles - Daily News
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LAUSD Planning to Use Subs If Teachers Go On Strike - CBS
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