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34,000 LA Unified students have not complied with vaccine mandate, signaling problems ahead

LOS ANGELES — About 34,000 students have not yet complied with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the Los Angeles Unified School District — and there's no longer enough time for students who have not gotten their first shot to be fully vaccinated by the Jan. 10 start of the second semester, portending significant disruption to their education as they will be barred from campus.

The high number of students who will not be able to meet the full inoculation deadline is likely to force difficult decisions on leaders of second-largest U.S. school system, which has in the nation. Students who are not fully vaccinated — or exempt — will be forced into the district's independent study program or will have

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