Under the hybrid model, no more than 15 students would be in class at a time. Santa Ana Unified in Orange County approved a plan under which students could decide whether to learn solely online or under a hybrid model in which they would be in the classroom a few days a week and meet online the rest of the time.
Several nearby districts appear to be leaning towards offering students a choice. LAUSD - the second largest district in the nation - serves more than 600,000 students at more than 1,000 schools. LAUSD itself closed campuses on March 16. Schools statewide began operating remotely in mid-March, with students using programs such as Zoom and Google Classroom to connect with their teachers and complete their course work to finish out the 2019-20 academic year. "In the face of the alarming spike in COVID cases, the lack of necessary funding from the government to open schools safely, and the outsized threat of death faced by working class communities of color, there really is no other choice that doesn't put thousands of lives at risk.
"It was the right thing to close school campuses then, and it's the right thing to keep them closed now," UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said in a statement. The union applauded LAUSD's announcement the correct move in light of the circumstances.
All this comes after United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the union which represents LAUSD teachers, announced Saturday that of 18,000 members who took part in a poll, 83% voted against physically reopening schools to students.
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