{"id":1101985,"date":"2021-12-09T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1101985"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:58:59","slug":"los-angeles-school-board-fires-496-unvaccinated-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-school-board-fires-496-unvaccinated-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles School Board Fires 496 Unvaccinated Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flos-angeles-school-board-fires-496-unvaccinated-employees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1101985&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation\u2019s second-largest school district, fired 496 employees on Tuesday for not complying with the district\u2019s coronavirus vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParting ways with individuals who choose not to be vaccinated is an extremely difficult, but necessary decision to ensure the safety of all in our school communities,\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-education-los-angeles-school-boards-0d08c47ca1c2447c4f40fac88f400385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;interim Superintendent Megan Reilly. \u201cWe wish everyone the best in their future endeavors and encourage everyone to get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the school board voted to terminate 496 employees who did not get vaccinated by the district\u2019s November 15 deadline. These employees likely were on leave since October, when LAUSD employees were required to get their first dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Terminated employees may be eligible for reemployment once they become vaccinated, according to the school district.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17890922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/09\/wi\/ap\/10\/virus-outbreak-los-angeles-schools-anti-vaccine-mandate-protesters-supporters-of-california-recall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17890922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/virus-outbreak-los-angeles-schools-anti-vaccine-mandate-protesters-supporters-of-california-recall-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-vaccine mandate protesters and supporters of the California recall election rally outside the front doors of the Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD headquarters in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo\/Damian Dovarganes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tracey Schroeder, an LAUSD employee, made one final plea to the board to not go through with the firings before their vote on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got 24 years and I just want to be back on my school site with the students that I love, with the staff that I love, with the school that hired me,\u201d Schroeder&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2021\/12\/07\/lausd-school-board-fires-hundreds-of-unvaccinated-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cOn behalf of all the teachers, please reconsider. There is natural immunity. There\u2019s choice. And there\u2019s no need for such extreme measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the district terminates hundreds of unvaccinated employees, roughly 34,000 students remain unvaccinated. As of Wednesday, the unvaccinated students do not have enough time to get vaccinated by the start of the spring semester on January 10.<\/p>\n<p>Students who remain unvaccinated will be placed into the district\u2019s independent student program or forced to leave the school district entirely. The school district is currently battling a&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/lausds-vaccine-mandate-students-challenged-court\/2774796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;that challenges the constitutionality of its vaccinate mandate as applied to students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation\u2019s second-largest school district, fired 496 employees on Tuesday for not complying with the district\u2019s coronavirus vaccine mandate. \u201cParting ways with individuals who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}