The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education members voted to postpone its vaccination mandate for students until the 2022 fall term.
According to the original mandate, every student aged 12 years and above had to get fully vaccinated on or before January 10, 2022, which will mark the beginning of the springtime term.
Up to about 85% of qualified students got vaccinated, but as many as 30,000 students might just have needed to rely on online independent education for failing to meet the mandate.
The current coronavirus vaccination rate made interim superintendent of LAUSD Megan Reilly recommend the postponement move.
In December 2021, Reilly stated that vaccination is a necessary aspect of protection from coronavirus disease. Reilly also said that LAUSD applauds the approximately 85% of students who were aged 12 years and above and their family members for acting according to the mandate. She also stated that several other families were including their vaccination records in the LAUSD system. Reilly regarded it as a big milestone and stated that students had more days to be vaccinated against coronavirus disease.
The original mandate applied to just charter schools situated on Los Angeles Unified School District campuses. Therefore, the board voted to get every charter school included in vaccine requirements.
LAUSD staffers and students will have to undergo baseline coronavirus tests at the beginning of every single term, alongside weekly testing through January next year, irrespective of their vaccination status.
By February 2022, LAUSD will only require weekly coronavirus testing for students without vaccinations.
