City Attorney Puts Brakes on Buscaino’s Motion to Sue LAUSD Details
EDUCATION POLITICS On Feb. 10, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer rejected District 15 Councilman Joe Buscaino and District 1 Councilman Gil Cedillo’s motion to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District to force the unsafe reopening of school campuses (“in-person instruction immediately”) even as more variants are found spreading in the community that are far more contagious than the original coronavirus.
In a released statement, the United Teachers of Los Angeles saluted Feuer’s action, calling the motion “political theater that opportunistically feeds off of people’s frustrations.” UTLA went onto accuse the councilman of pandering to the business community’s desire to accelerate employees’ return to work even as COVID-19 outbreaks at workplaces have soared dramatically.
Mayor Garcetti discusses distance learning impact on students and desire to reopen schools
LOS ANGELES - During a press briefing Wednesday, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti touched on the challenges surrounding distance learning and the need to reopen schools for students. I think our highest priority has to be our children. We ve got cardrooms open and our schools not. Let s get our priorities straight, and don t get me wrong, jobs are important too but our children have been suffering and our children that already suffer the most are suffering the most on top of it. They are literally losing a year of their education and in many ways, maybe sending them on a pathway where they will never be able to recover so I hope all stakeholders, our districts, our federal government, our local governments, our teachers, our school employees are all unified in let s get schools open as quickly as we can and safely as we can, he said.