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LAUSD Supt. Beutner: Campuses unlikely to reopen when ‘malls receive more focus than public schools’

Manchester Ave. Elementary School 5th grade teacher Gladys Alvarez talks to her students during a virtual zoom class inside her empty classroom.(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Ds and Fs surge, attendance slips among L.A.’s poorest students amid distance learning

Sports medicine teacher Arlene Alpuerto interacts virtually with students at Eagle Rock Jr./Sr. High School in Los Angeles in 2020. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Academically struggling LAUSD students to receive in-person tutoring after deal is reached with union

A public elementary school campus in Los Angeles is shown on Aug. 17, 2020. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

LAUSD takes high-stakes bet on new start-up to run coronavirus testing program

L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner, left, takes a COVID-19 nose swab test at Harry Bridges Span School in Wilmington in this undated photo. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/Los Angeles Times)

L.A. school officials have 3 weeks to devise emergency child care plan, board orders

A volunteer hands 3-year-old Zayla a backpack filled with school supplies at a distribution to support neighborhood families as her mom Claudia Rodriguez, right, looks on, Aug. 14, 2020 in Los Angeles. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

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New school year, distance-learning gets underway at LAUSD

Gladys Alvarez, a fifth grade teacher at Manchester Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles, talks to her students via Zoom during a meet-and-greet on Aug.19, 2020. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

LAUSD announces plan to test all students, teachers for COVID-19 as school year begins virtually

Assistant Principal Samuel Dovlatian and Karla Rosales check in students at Hollywood High School on Aug. 13, 2020. With over 734,000 enrolled students, the Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest public school system in California and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States. With the advent of COVID-19, blended learning, or combined online and classroom learning, will become the norm for the coming school year. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

LAUSD to offer individual tutoring, online and in person, during new school year

The shadow of a passing pedestrian is seen at the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in Los Angeles, California on Jan. 9, 2019. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

With classes set to resume in 2 weeks, LAUSD releases plans for start of new school year

Two security guards talk on the campus of the closed McKinley School, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) system, in Compton, California, just south of Los Angeles, on April 28, 2020. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

L.A. Unified School District will not resume in-person classes when school year begins Aug. 18: Superintendent

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LAUSD Supt. Austin Beutner discusses task force on school policing

LAUSD Supt. Beutner to recommend ending use of pepper spray, policy allowing carotid hold at schools

Los Angeles School Police officers watch students lining up to pass through a security check point in the aftermath of two apparent racially motivated student brawls at Thomas Jefferson High School April 21, 2005. (David McNew/Getty Images)

26,000 LAUSD students graduate amid coronavirus pandemic, Supt. Beutner says

Two security guards talk on the campus of the closed McKinley School, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District system, in Compton on April 28, 2020. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

LAUSD superintendent says return to schools will still be risky without vaccine

School buses are seen parked in a lot while schools schools stay closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak, on March 17, 2020, in Gardena. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

L.A. schools’ distance learning amid coronavirus has uneven results, survey says

LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner speaks during a news conference on May 18, 2020.