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Culver City Unified, a 7,000-student district on the outskirts of Los Angeles, is requiring all eligible students and staff attending in-person school to vaccinate themselves against the coronavirus 鈥� the first public school system in the nation to do so amid a surge of cases due to the Delta variant.

In an Aug. 17 , Culver City Superintendent Quoc Tran announced that students would need to show proof of immunization by Nov. 19. Families who fail to comply by that date will have to enroll their children in a , EdSource reported.

Dorit Reiss, vaccine policy expert and professor of law at University of California, Hastings, and Dennis Roche, co-founder of the website Burbio, which has tracked school policy throughout the pandemic, told 成人抖阴 that they were not aware of any other school district in the nation mandating COVID vaccinations for students.

The decision, CCUSD spokesperson Geoff Maleman told 成人抖阴, was primarily motivated by concerns for student and staff safety due to the Delta surge.

鈥淥ur goal, obviously, was not just to be the first. It was really to make sure that we kept our staff and students as safe as we possibly could,鈥� Maleman said.

While health experts agree that vaccines deliver strong protection against COVID-19, including the Delta variant, research indicates that coronavirus shots need not be a prerequisite to schools reopening safely, provided that mitigation measures such as universal masking, 3-foot distancing and adequate ventilation are followed.

Underscoring the shifting ground nationally on the subject of vaccinations, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that , meaning some 20,000 individuals will have to receive at least one dose by the first day of competition.

In Culver City, Reiss thinks the district鈥檚 legal grounding may prove shaky: The list of immunizations required for public school enrollment is determined at the state level, she said, and is typically not left for individual districts to decide. Across California, teachers are required to get immunized against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing. The school system will likely argue that the vaccines mandated by the state represent a floor, not a ceiling, for districts鈥� immunization requirements, she said, but California鈥檚 long-standing precedent of dictating vaccine policy statewide may weaken their claim.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e taking a legal risk here,鈥� the law professor told 成人抖阴. 鈥淚 would be surprised if there鈥檚 no lawsuit.鈥�

Maleman, acknowledging 鈥渢his is a divisive issue,鈥� said that the decision to require students get the COVID-19 shot was vetted by the district鈥檚 legal team.

Community members in the southern California district, Maleman points out, have largely supported the vaccination rule. Superintendent Tran estimated that some , the Los Angeles Times reported. In response to a post announcing the policy on the district鈥檚 Facebook page, the .

鈥淪eeing this makes me feel so proud of being a Culver City alumni,鈥� one Facebook user wrote.

Currently, individuals 12 years old and up are eligible to receive coronavirus inoculations. Children aged 5 to 11 may be authorized for shots as early as the , according to national health officials.

Over the summer, COVID-19 case rates in adolescents nationwide have , from 3.4 cases per 100,000 12- to 15-year olds in June to 14.6 cases per 100,000 in August, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Under 1 in 3 adolescents are fully vaccinated, while the same is true for .

Outside California, states including , and have also enacted rules requiring educators to receive vaccinations or be tested regularly 鈥� in some cases threatening that teachers who refuse could be fired. Other states are . In the realm of higher education, more than across the U.S., including the 23-campus California State University system, mandate that students returning to campus this fall must receive the COVID vaccine.

In Culver City, Maleman hopes other K-12 districts may follow suit in requiring students to receive coronavirus vaccinations.

鈥淲e鈥檙e the first but hopefully we鈥檙e not the last,鈥� he said.

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