LA Unified’s Unvaccinated, Online Teachers Might Soon Lose Jobs Despite Exemptions

LA Unified’s Unvaccinated, Online Teachers Might Soon Lose Jobs Despite Exemptions
A nurse practitioner administers a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic for Catholic school education workers including elementary school teachers and staff at a vaccination site at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on March 8, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES—A group of teachers and parents gathered in protest outside the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) headquarters in Los Angeles on May 16 after some online class teachers who are unvaccinated learned that they could soon lose their jobs if they don’t get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 10.

Dozens of people held signs that read “Stop Discrimination,” “Medical Freedom,” and “LAUSD Stop Firing Teachers,” at the protest organized by Los Angeles Educators and Parents United—a group of “diverse LAUSD Educators & Parents unifying for freedom of choice,” according to its Instagram page.