She said that school officials can print out a daily list of students approved for on-campus instruction and check the list off manually when Daily Pass is slow or unavailable.Īs for LAUSD employees, the district reported about 2,000 teachers absent, while 262 school bus routes had to be covered by alternate drivers due to COVID-19. “We thought we might have something like this occur, and we apologize for that,” Reilly said.
11 press conference at Olive Vista Middle School. Reilly said the district anticipated issues with Daily Pass during a Jan. The district’s Interim Superintendent Megan K. The number of absent students-as well as absent test results-could also be due to technical difficulties with the Daily Pass app, which reportedly slowed the morning of the district’s first school day in 2022 due to an overload of users.
… Now they want to test weekly,” Kristina Irwin, who has three children in the LAUSD, told The Epoch Times in a previous interview. “First they want to do a baseline test before the kids go back to school. Other parents, however, oppose the district’s pandemic safety protocols-some of the strictest among school districts in the nation. “Hopefully each day that goes by, more families will feel confident that their kids are safe and well taken care of and learning at school.” Seventh and eighth grades students attend a combined Advanced Engineering class at Olive Vista Middle School on the first day back following the winter break amid a dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases across Los Angeles County on January 11, 2022, in Sylmar, Calif. “There’s still some nerves and hesitancy,” school board member Tanya Ortiz Franklin said, according to the Los Angeles Times. This comes as some parents express reluctance in sending their children back to campus amid the Omicron surge. Seventeen percent of students uploaded positive results while 12 percent did not upload any results, leaving about 1 percent who uploaded a negative test result but still did not return to campus. 11, about 88 percent of students and 91 percent of employees have uploaded their test results to Daily Pass before in-person instruction restarted, according to the district. The district serves over 600,000 students, of whom 30 percent-about 180,000-did not go back to school on Tuesday, mostly because of testing positive or experiencing technical issues when uploading their test results to the district’s Daily Pass mobile application.Īll LAUSD students and staff must upload proof of a negative COVID-19 test result to the Daily Pass app to return to campus, as required by the district on Jan. 11, the first day of the spring semester in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Reilly said Tuesday.LOS ANGELES-Amid a surge in COIVD-19 cases, almost one-third of students were absent on Jan. Unified maintains the highest Covid-19 safety standards of any public school district in the nation, including weekly testing of all staff and students, universal masking indoors and outdoors, comprehensive sanitizing efforts, frequent hand-washing, upgraded air filtration systems, physical distancing as much as possible and collaboration with health partners,” Interim Superintendent Megan K. At least a half-dozen Northern California districts have returned to remote education, as well. and Cal State campuses have decided to retreat to distance learning amid the current Omicron surge. The system crashed, creating chaos and long lines.ĭozens of U.C.
Some students had problems with the Daily Pass system that was supposed to allow them access their test results and to get clearance. The district required all students and staff to be tested for Covid before returning to in-person activities, distributing thousands of take-home test kits to students since Friday. “Testing those who are close contacts of infected students or school staff can quickly identify others who may now be infected, and limit continued spread and, making it easy for those eligible to get their booster doses helps ensure that immune systems are best primed to repel the virus.” “As schools reopen countywide, we are seeing a high number of students and staff testing positive reflecting the explosive rate of community spread,” said Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. Covid Deaths Begin To Rise In Los Angeles Wave Believed Tied To Beginning Of December Omicron Case Surge
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