Los Angeles Unified School District students and staff will be able to remove their masks indoors beginning Wednesday. The nation’s second-largest school district announced the news today aft…
kept its requirement in place due to a clause in its labor contract with the teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles, which required mask-wearing through the end of the semester.talks with UTLA and other labor groups, announcing Friday that it had reached an agreement to lift the requirement. Masks will now only be “strongly recommended” indoors.
The pact with UTLA, while allowing for a lifting of the mask mandate, calls for continued weekly Covid testing of all students and staff through the end of the school year. The district must continue to offer KN95 or N95 masks to any employee who requests them. The district also must provide take-home Covid tests to all students and staff “for baseline testing prior to the beginning of the 2022 spring break.
The agreement will be in place until June 30. Additional talks will be held later to determine protocols for the next school year.
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