The letter was signed by officials from a host of community groups, including the Alliance for Children s Rights, AltaMed Health Services, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, Faith and Community Empowerment, Fulfillment Fund, LA s Best, Meet Each Need with Dignity and New Hope Community Church. Several elected officials also signed the letter, including Carson Mayor Lula Davis-Holmes and Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who this week asked the city to explore legal remedies for expediting school re-openings.
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday the county will expand vaccine eligibility to various essential workers in the next two to three weeks, including teachers. But even when teachers become eligible for the vaccine, it will take months to get them fully vaccinated, given the extremely limited weekly allocations of doses the county receives.
LAUSD superintendent on COVID: L.A. is example of government dysfunction
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) Los Angeles City Councilmember Joe Buscaino doesn t understand why Los Angeles Unified School District hasn t opened for in-person learning at 25% capacity. He s introducing a motion to instruct the city attorney to look at what legal measures can be taken to get kids back in classrooms. Politics should not get in the way of educating our students, and apparently there s a lot of egos involved here. Adults in the room at a time where I have students up and down my district and throughout the city of Los Angeles who are struggling emotionally, depressed, stressed a lot of anxiety because they haven t been in a classroom, said Buscaino.
CDC, other experts argue schools can safely reopen before teachers are vaccinated
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Share: More experts and officials are arguing that schools can safely reopen before teachers have been vaccinated for COVID-19 - but many unions and districts remain cautious.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is making a strong case for schools reopening across the country.
The CDC s director said on Wednesday that schools can reopen safely without vaccinating teachers.
In addition, the Southern California chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics also believes it is safe for schools to reopen and they should immediately. We ve been watching and monitoring what s been going on, said Dr. Alice Kuo, with the academy. And more and more studies have come out and schools are open in other parts of the country and quite frankly around the world and basically the results are very, very positive.