Overview

• Parents and Los Angeles Unified reached a settlement, pending court approval, after a five-year suit over pandemic remote learning that alleged violations of state standards and disproportionate harm to Black and Latino students.
• The agreement requires at least 45 hours per year of high-dose tutoring for more than 100,000 of the district’s most vulnerable students over three years, defined as small groups of six or fewer or one-on-one sessions held at least three times weekly in 30-minute blocks.
• Additional provisions include regular assessments to identify students needing support, teacher training in math and English language arts, outreach to chronically absent or dropped-out students, and disaggregated public reporting.
• The plan also calls for annual evaluations of tutoring effectiveness, though the district has not detailed implementation and declined comment while court approval is pending.
• Because of the case’s length, students who were in high school when campuses closed in 2020 generally will not benefit from the tutoring requirement.