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Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest public school system in the country, but it doesn’t just educate nearly 700,000 students. It provides a social safety net to the 82% of students who live in poverty and 18,000 homeless students.
On this week’s episode of THE LATEST PODCAST, LAUSD board member Nick Melvoin discusses how the pandemic has exacerbated problems that already existed within L.A. County and how they were able to take action to address these problems.