LAUSD settles suit to help students with pandemic learning setbacks - 5 years after disruption

"A hard-fought lawsuit to bring more live teaching and better technology to the Los Angeles school system at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is ending - five years later - with an agreement to provide tutoring and other supports to an estimated 100,000 students. The length of the litigation means that no student of high school age when the pandemic began will be able to benefit."

"The settlement "ensures that over 100,000 of the district's most vulnerable students will have access to no fewer than 45 hours of high-dose tutoring per year," the advocates said in a statement. "That amounts to over 10 million hours of guaranteed high-dose tutoring over the next three school years." Appropriate tutoring is defined as small groups of six or fewer students or one-on-one sessions aligned with the student's classroom work."

A settlement ends five-year litigation and requires high-dose tutoring and additional supports for an estimated 100,000 Los Angeles Unified students. The agreement guarantees at least 45 hours of high-dose tutoring per student per year, amounting to over 10 million hours across three school years. Tutoring must occur in small groups of six or fewer or one-on-one, align with classroom work, and be offered at least three times per week in 30-minute sessions. The lawsuit alleged that Los Angeles Unified failed to meet state educational standards and disproportionately harmed Black and Latino students. The litigation timeline prevents any student who was high-school age at the pandemic start from benefiting.

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