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The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to focus on teacher-led, high-dosage tutoring to meet the requirements of a settlement that requires LAUSD to provide 10 million hours of tutoring to 100,000 students over three years. 

Shaw et al. v. LAUSD et al. was filed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and alleged that only 60% of the district’s students participated in virtual instruction during the spring 2020 semester, and that virtual learning practices discriminated against Black and Latino students, as well as those from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Per the settlement, LAUSD seeks to provide 45 hours of high-dosage tutoring each year to eligible students in small groups of three to five, who would receive intensive subject support. 

In keeping with the recent bargaining agreement with United Teachers Los Angeles, the district will first look to teachers to provide tutoring, relying on outside contractors as a backup. Currently, LAUSD works with 25 vendors to provide tutoring, according to the presentation. 

The district plans to spend $74 million in ELO-P (Expanded Learning Opportunities Program) funds in fiscal year 2027 to provide tutoring, according to a presentation from Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. 

“We know that teachers know their students best,” said board member Kelly Gonez at Tuesday’s meeting. “And so it would seem that this is a shared priority to ensure that there’s a high level of take up on the teacher-led model, and that we have enough teachers who volunteer to be able to implement it without needing additional vendor support.”