LAUSD Roundtable Addresses Safety Of In-Person School-Year

Los Angeles CA

09 August, 2021

2:35 PM

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LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles Unified Students and families with questions about the return to full-time, in-person learning may get their questions answered with a series of televised discussions with Interim Superintendent Megan K. Reilly. "At the Table with Los Angeles Unified" will feature roundtable discussions with Reilly and experts on various topics addressing questions families may have before school resumes Aug. 16. The first 30-minute episode recently aired and will be rebroadcast on KLCS-TV at 6 p.m. Friday and streaming on lausd.net. The episode features Dr. Smita Malhotra, the district's medical director; Dr. Vladimir Manuel, a family medicine doctor and scientist at UCLA's Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Adaina Brown, Local District West superintendent; and Andres Chait, Local District Northeast superintendent. "We have heard from our families and employees," Reilly said. "We hope that by bringing these experts to the table, we'll be able to engage in deep conversations that will provide the latest information that everyone needs to know about our return to in-person learning." City News Service contributed to this report.