As of right now, multiple private schools across Los Angeles are closing their campuses due to the fears over the spread of coronavirus.
Public Schools remain open as of right now, but according to Jackie Goldberg who is a Los Angeles School District Board member warned parents that they should plan for closures.
Santa Monica's Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences currently as no cases of COVID-19 at the campus, but they are closed down and their will be an online learning arrangement that the administration has been testing out.
Harvard-Westlake, with two campuses located in Bel Air and Coldwater Canyon closed their doors until further notice. If LAUSD schools were to close, it would then affect over 600,000 students. Additional private schools that have been shut down or have online learning are North Hollywood's Oakwood School, Studio City's Campbell Hall, Mar Vista's Windward School, Chatsworth's Sierra Canyon, and Bel Air's Marymount School.
USC and UCLA have suspended classes while Stanford has shut down. Los Angeles Unified School District schools will close Monday, March 16, 2020 for two weeks.
Jackie Goldberg stressed that it's not a matter of IF this will happen, it's when. She wants parents to make childcare plans for when the schools close down.
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