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It aims to provide COVID-19 vaccines to 300,000 students at 250 schools over 13 days, adding mobile vaccination clinics to the 19 school-based vaccine clinics that already exist.
According to a tweet from LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner, the program will build on other relief efforts that the district offered throughout the pandemic, which included "130 million meals, 40 million school supply items, 500,000 students with computer and internet access [and] 1.3 million COVID tests."
"What we're trying to do is to make sure our students have access in a place they know, they trust," Beutner told NBC4 in an interview on Thursday. "Young adults need agency."