LA City Councilman Plans Motion to Explore Legal Options to Reopen Schools

Chairs, desk and other school furniture is stacked outside a classroom at a public elementary school in Glendale, California just north of Los Angeles, August 17, 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. - The school year starts this week with online classes only. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino plans to introduce a motion next week asking the city attorney to explore legal options for forcing the LA Unified School District (LAUSD) to reopen its campuses for in- person learning, despite the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

“I stand with the 1,500 pediatricians in Southern California as well as the director of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] who are calling for the safe reopening of our schools,'' Buscaino said in a statement Feb. 4.