Los Angeles Unified School District Appears On Brink Of Delaying Student Vaccination Mandate

The Los Angeles Unified School District appears poised to withdraw its student vaccination mandate for the spring semester.

Legal actions, angry parent activist group protests, and the prospect of an already shaky online schooling system being inundated with an estimated 30,000 unvaccinated students has put pressure on the school board to hold off.

Originally, the LAUSD board said that students age 12 and over who were not vaccinated would not be allowed on campuses as of Jan. 10, the end of winter break. Today, a note circulating from interim Supt. Megan Reilly said a hearing would be held Dec. 14 to determine whether enforcement of the January deadline would be suspended until fall of 2022, the start of the next school year.

Unvaccinated students would be placed in the independent study program City of Angels if the mandate holds.

In the statement from Reilly, she claimed 86.5% of students are in vaccination compliance. That includes those who have been inoculated, obtained a medical exemption, or have qualified for a deadline extension because of extenuating circumstances.