About one-third of Los Angeles Unified students — approximately 130,000 — have been absent from school during the first days back from winter break, ushering in another chapter of pandemic disruption in the nation’s second-largest school system. Alberto Carvalho said Friday that the district will continue to send a message to parents that Los Angeles schools are safe. Others may have tested positive or had symptoms but the information was not uploaded to the district’s health-screening system. On Tuesday, when campuses reopened, 17% of students and 15% of LAUSD staff tested positive for the coronavirus, the district said. On Thursday, 15.6% of students tested positive while 13.3% of staff tested positive — still about 10 times the number of cases before winter break.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 14, 2022 21:09 UTC