Back-to-school

For families of kids with special needs, the return to in-person learning does not mean a return to normal.

In our Destination Education series, we are taking a deeper dive into issues surrounding schooling and learning and more. In this segment, we focus on high school football, which has finally kicked off, but safety remains a priority.

Good Day LA anchor Michaela Pereira sat down 1-on-1 with LAUSD Superintendent Megan Reilly.

Transgender students are estimated to be about 1 percent of students within the Los Angeles Unified School District. FOX 11’s Bob DeCastro spoke to school district officials on about their policies and a transgender student who recently came out shares her story.

Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles Unified School District students are scheduled to return to classrooms Monday, but some were met with long lines as they arrived on campus due to an extended process of verifying requiring COVID-19 tests.

LAUSD employees have until October 15 to be fully vaccinated.

The Armenian Educational Foundation has helped thousands of local students and renovated hundreds of schools in Armenia— over 200 since the 1990s. (Courtesy: The Armenian Educational Foundation)

Teachers in the greater LA area say they’ve had students who stopped attending Zoom school, in some cases, they had no idea what had happened to the students, but some high school students quit to start working to help their families economically. In this segment, FOX 11 looks at what has become of these students and what are the schools doing to make sure that they continue their education.

On Aug. 9, an estimated 42,000 students returned to school for in-person instruction in Riverside County.

In FOX 11's new series, Destination Education, we discuss managing back-to-school anxiety.