LAUSD Votes to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine for Students Over 12

A person receives a bandage after their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic at the Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA in Los Angeles on Aug. 7, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

The LAUSD Board of Education voted 7–0 on Sept. 9 to require students over the age of 12 to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in order to attend in-person classes in the LA Unified School District (LAUSD).

Students with “qualified and approved exemptions under LAUSD’s existing immunization policies” are exempt from the vaccine requirement, according to the district.