With coronavirus-related school outbreaks on the rise in L.A. County and with spring break set to begin next week, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho on Friday, April 8, stressed the need for students and staff to make use of the take-home COVID-19 tests that the district has distributed before everyone returns to the classroom after vacation., which the public health director said was most likely due to the presence of the highly contagious omicron BA.
“We have made great strides in terms of conquering the effects, the impacts of COVID-19, but we are not out of the woods yet,” Carvalho said. “So we need to make sure that as we go into the spring break vacation, we remain watchful and we embrace the best protective protocols.” LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks on issues related to the LAUSD after meeting with student body representatives at Panorama High to discuss the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Although the district has instructed every student and staff member who work or attend school in person to take the home rapid antigen tests before returning from spring break, it is only requiring those who test positive to report their results to the district.throughout the county that experienced outbreaks between March 30 and April 5, the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, a school in the L.A.
Despite the outbreak at LACES, Carvalho defended the district’s health-and-safety protocols as making sense. Officials have regularly touted its COVID-19 measures as the strictest among schools in the nation, though some parents have criticized the district for the same reason.