The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest, will not be reopening its schools to students or teachers until after November’s presidential election. This according to county Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer.
“We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November,” Ferrer said in a conference call with school administrators and medical staff.
The seeming disconnect between Covid19 fears and Election Day led many speculate as to whether the county wasn’t keeping the district closed to somehow sway public opinion in the Democrats’ favor, something LA’s health department denies.
“Dr. Ferrer’s comment was related only to timing any expanded school re-openings to allow for enough time from the implementation of changes to assess impact prior to expansions,” a county Department of Public Health spokesperson told Fox News in a statement.
Nearly 735,000 students are enrolled the LAUSD.