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/PRNewswire/ Jenner & Block has expanded its presence in California, opening its third office in the state in Century City and more than doubling its. ....
Herrera s suit raises question: Who decides when conditions are safe to return kids to school? FacebookTwitterEmail City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the San Francisco Unified School District on Wednesday, demanding that it come up with a plan to reopen the city’s schools.Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press The lawsuit that City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed Wednesday against the San Francisco Unified School District and its leaders was unprecedented in California and perhaps nationwide: a city accusing its own public schools of failing to make plans to reopen classrooms for safe in-person instruction as soon as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, as state law requires. ....
Morning Brief: LAUSD Sued Published An example of what an LAUSD classroom could look like. Chava Sanchez/LAist Good morning, L.A. My colleague Kyle Stokes reports that Beutner’s announcement came just three months after a small number of high-risk students – including those with special education needs, English learners, foster youth and homeless children – were welcomed back into the classroom. Calling the current status of the pandemic “dangerous,” Beutner added that the district “will not reopen schools [for any students] until it’s safe and appropriate to do so. The groups represented in the lawsuit, the Alliance for Children’s Rights and the Learning Rights Law Center, claim that Beutner is in no position to make that decision. Alex Romain, a partner at the firm Milbank LLP, which is handling the case, said that public health officials have deemed it acceptable for those small groups to remain on campus. ....