It isn't for lack of trying by teachers that some students aren't able to fully access the LAUSD's online learning curriculum.

Coronavirus closures are giving school districts an opportunity to evaluate their online learning efforts and how important teachers are to those programs.

Hotels need to take in homeless people if they don't want the coronavirus to spread.

Accusations of sexual impropriety by powerful men should be taken seriously.

Despite their "essential" status during the coronavirus lockdown, frontline retail and delivery workers are among the least paid and least protected.

It's a relief for many that the governor didn't order all state beaches and parks closed, as expected. But we're still waiting for a smart, comprehensive approach for Californians to safely enjoy the state's abundant natural resources.

Some antibody tests for COVID-19 have unacceptably high rates of false positives.

Voluntary response rates to the 2020 census reveal social inequality — and spotlight how crucial an accurate count is to Los Angeles and California.

Los Angeles County supervisors seem to enjoy their low-tech world where the coronavirus emergency is an excuse to keep the public quiet.

Several medical trade groups are asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom for extraordinary immunity for their triage decisions.

California starts to reopen from coronavirus lockdown. But if we relax vigilance now, we could go back to shutdowns again.

Congress decided that all new health insurance policies should cover preventive care. The ability to deny one type -- birth control for women -- on religious grounds should be a rare exception.

Wildlife scientists say we can bring our new delight in nature to the other side of the pandemic, if we're willing to keep the romance alive.

If colleges have to pay out millions in tuition refunds because of coronavirus, it could mean higher tuition and reduced financial aid in coming years.

If the messages from anti-lockdown protests sound familiar, that's because the same people who protested a law to tighten vaccine laws in California are organizing the marches on Sacramento.

This is no time for LAPD to "manage" public anger. It is a time to come clean.

In a rare bit of reasonable regulatory activity by the Trump administration, new rules governing sexual assault accusations at colleges strike the right balance -- for the most part.

People are making valid points about Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis, but the president's supporters aren't listening.

Gov. Newsom has taken to calling California a "nation-state" when discussing its efforts to fight the coronavirus. Constitutionally, that's not true.

Laguna Woods residents express dismay at their neighbors' opposition to using a nearby hotel as housing for homeless coronavirus patients.

With social distancing a must, this year's virtual celebration will be long remembered.

Local hotels have repurposed thousands of rooms for use by medical professionals and homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic.

Screening a sample of the population to see who has been infected with COVID-19 and who hasn't is a huge step forward in returning to normal life.

America's optimism may have blinded it to the coronavirus. Now, with suffering a part of our daily life, we have a chance to become a mature nation.

Easing sanctions on Iran, hard hit by the coronavirus, would be a humanitarian act that reminds the world of what America truly is.

Trump can't 'reopen' the economy, but Republican governors can follow his lead. If they do, Newsom must continue to protect Californians.

The Supreme Court is allowing the Republican Party to suppress the vote. This bodes very poorly for democracy in America.

Warning memos were written. Research was funded. But what good is any of this if American leaders fail to act?

This is what happens when we elect a failed-businessman-turned-reality TV star as president.

These are extraordinary times, and Joe Biden has a number of legislators, mayors and governors who could fill an entire Cabinet.

Countless people have applied for unemployment benefits they cannot get. This can create a crisis worse than the coronavirus outbreak.

Trump justifies his actions on coronavirus by saying he's a businessman who doesn't like having a lot of employees. But government is not a business.

Halting funding of the WHO is another in a long line of decisions made by the Trump administration abdicating U.S. leadership on science.

A tent city for homeless veterans? It should not have taken a deadly pandemic for local leaders to come up with that solution.

An LAUSD teacher who once campaigned against Austin Beutner gives the superintendent credit for his leadership during the pandemic.

Ron Reagan, son of the late president, was in an ad for an atheist interest group. He should have just kept his nonbelief to himself.

Free college was common in the U.S. until the 1960s and produced alumni that included Nobel Prize winners and accomplished statesmen.

Clean energy wants a level playing field with fossil fuels and nuclear power. It needs government funding for that to happen.

Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves something like combat pay for guiding the nation with his scientific expertise while also doing enough not to get fired.

It's insane to think life can return to normal soon when we haven't even figured out how to get enough milk and toilet paper into stores.

Some of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks have been linked to religious services, and the public's health trumps every other right.

People who blame the president for failing to prepare the country ignore an important fact: We didn't want to believe America was vulnerable to COVID-19.

Bears, deer and other animals are roaming freely in areas once packed by Yosemite tourists. It appears the coronavirus is teaching us something about humans.

A program for one-time assistance to undocumented workers affected by the pandemic is a start, but California must do much more.

A reader says it's nice to know she wasn't the only one who was apparently duped after she bought packages of toilet paper on the Amazon Marketplace.

The president might not like to work, but the people who think and act for him are very effective at their jobs.

The Postal Service is as important to the United States as its language and its highways. Losing it would forever change the country for the worse.

Protesters violating every rule on fighting COVID-19, with the support of the president, show how badly we need competent leadership.

When doctors are given N95 masks but the nurses who frequently come into contact with sick patients do not, you know something's wrong.

Participants in the Stanford study self-selected, among other flaws. Its results do not reveal anything meaningful about the coronavirus.