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LAUSD Begins Testing For Coronavirus With Surprising Results

LAUSD Begins Testing For Coronavirus With Surprising Results
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Since districtwide COVID-19 testing began on Thursday, very few have tested positive. The effort is the most ambitious nationwide. Los Angeles Unified School District students stand in a hallway socially distance during a lunch break at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) LOS ANGELES, CA — If students return to their classrooms in the Los Angeles Unified School District, this year, it will be with the help of the nation’s most ambitious testing program. The district has already begun testing thousands of staffers and students, working toward the goal of testing more than 700,000 students along with their teachers and family members before children can return to their classrooms. No district across the nation has plans to test so many members of the community. The $150 million testing program is considered the most ambitious of any school district in the nation. Still, “any return to schools is not without risk,” said AUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner. District officials have not announced a date for the widespread reopening of classrooms. Families across the county found out last week that health officials would not consider reopening waivers until November. “The dizzying changes in guidelines and pronouncements by health […]

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