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When schools finally reopen, Los Angeles public school students and their parents will face one new admissions requirement: a negative coronavirus test.

All 80 school districts in Los Angeles County are closed to the general student population until at least November. But when the time comes, a coronavirus test will be a crucial part of the reopening process in the state’s largest school district, Los Angeles Unified. Families that do not agree can stick with online-only instruction.

“We are going out and we’re testing all of our employees and all of our students,” said school board President Richard Vladovic, speaking Monday at the testing site set up at Harry Bridges Span School in Wilmington. “That’s essential as we prepare to return to schools.”

Vladovic said the district’s ambitious testing plan gives him hope that campuses could reopen soon in some form. Long Beach Unified, the county’s second-largest district, announced last week that the general student population would not return to campuses until January.

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