LOS ANGELES — Teachers and students on Wednesday will be able to see an unaccustomed sight inside Los Angeles school district classrooms: smiles.
For the first time since the pandemic shut down campuses in March 2020, students and staff could go about a normal day inside a classroom without a face covering. Many will likely choose to continue masking, however, a strategy health officials "strongly recommend."
The path to a mask-free day was cleared when members of the teachers union approved the new policy by a margin of 84% to 16% in results announced Monday night.
