Los Angeles alumni (California), the second largest school district in U.S, they could go back to schools next month, within a preliminary agreement announced Tuesday with the influential teachers union.

The principle of agreement establishes several “Security parameters” that would allow a partial reopening of the centers, indicated the Unified School District of The Angels and the union.

As in most public schools in California, the more than 600,000 students in the district have been in distance classes for almost a year due to the California pandemic. coronavirus.

“It is our shared commitment to the highest safety standards and the spirit of trust and collaboration that will bring us back to the schools.”Superintendent Austin Beutner and union president Cecily Myart-Cruz said in a joint statement.

The plan, which has yet to be ratified by the school board and union members, outlines a plan to reopen schools after the county of The Angels leave the phase with more restrictions, the purple, to enter the red, which according to local authorities could happen from next week.

The preschool and elementary school students would return in mid-April. Middle and high school students would do it at the end of April.

A crucial detail of the agreement is that teachers, as well as nurses and other union members, will not have to return to work until they have completed their vaccination against the disease. COVID-19.

The union had demanded that requirement by refusing to accept the earlier mid-April target. However, in a statement on Tuesday Myart-Cruz said the new agreement was in compliance. “All our key security protocols”.

The Board of Education seemed willing to endorse the agreement.

“It has been a tough year, but this is really the best possible result”Board member Jackie Goldberg said.

According to the plan, preschool students would have face-to-face classes with full hours, while elementary school will adopt a hybrid model with face-to-face and distance classes. The face-to-face sessions will be staggered, with some students in the morning shift and others in the afternoon so that the groups are small enough to allow for social distancing.

Students would still have the option of continuing to teach only remotely.

For now, middle and high school students will continue to teach online, although they can return to campus. “For peer interaction, social-emotional learning, and college and career counseling lessons”, according to the statement.

All students and employees will be required to wear face masks and practice social distancing, and will be tested for COVID-19 before returning to campus and on a weekly basis from that date, the statement added.

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