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Only one in nine students will participate in the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) additional learning days this month, a strategy the district has imposed to make up for pandemic-induced learning loss.
The district is offering two accelerated learning days on Dec. 19 and 20 during the upcoming winter break to help students still catching up on learning after the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of this week, about 45,000—or 11 percent of the district's 422,000 students—signed up for this month's learning days, an LAUSD spokesperson told The Epoch Times.
The acceleration days' schedule is similar to a typical school day, according to the district, beginning with breakfast at 8 a.m. followed by small group literacy and math lessons for elementary students and college preparatory instruction and tutoring for those in middle and high school....