Remember when school used to start after Labor Day? We do, too. On this holiday, we talk COVID in classrooms, a bad school breakup and other news.
This is the Sept. 6, 2021, edition of the 8 to 3 newsletter about school, kids and parenting. Like what you’re reading?Labor Day used to mark the end of summer, the last weekend for family getaways before the school year started, often on the Tuesday after the holiday. That’s no longer the case, now that most schools start their year in August, largely so they canNow, it’s just another long weekend, often spiced up with some workers’ marches to remind us what we’re celebrating.
Sonja Sharp is off. I’m Mitchell Landsberg, substitute host of this week’s truncated, labor-saving newsletter. And what better way to start than with news about the L.A. teachers union? My colleague Howard Blume writes that United Teachers Los Angeles has dropped— currently, ages 12 and up — be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
in 12 out of 17 cases not to oppose such resentencing. Of course, not everyone is happy with this leniency, least of all the families of victims.Pumpkin art from Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge in 2019 replicates Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” But we’re already starting to see ads and window displays, apparently because we have to get past Halloween before the Christmas ads can start. Anyway, all of that is a long-winded way of saying that The Times sneaked a foot onto the Halloween bandwagon withMore news from around California and beyond
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