Jackie Senis, a producer in Pacific Palisades who creates television commercials, is happy to send her two children 25 minutes away to Brentwood, where another school had empty rooms to accommodate the entire student body from Palisades Charter Elementary School.
“LAUSD pulled off the impossible by finding us a functional classroom and giving our teachers and our principal some autonomy and space to move forward in,” Senis said. On Tuesday, the parents and children had a picnic at their new school, the Brentwood Science Magnet.
She hasn’t had the strength to see their longtime elementary school “in person” after it burned in the Palisades fire, so she looked at photos online.
The Los Angeles Unified School District opened schools across the district on Monday and resumed classes on January 15 at alternative locations for schools that were impacted by the wildfires.
A mother kisses her child goodbye on the first day back to school at Palisades Charter Elementary School which has been re-located to the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The fire burned the Palisades School and the Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for the students. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Joseph Koshki hugs his son, third-grader Jaden Koshki, as they are welcomed back to school by Kathy Flores at Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. Koshki attended Palisades Charter Elementary School which was burned in the Palisades Fire. Wednesday was the first day of school in the new temporary location in Brentwood. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Children who had attended Palisades Charter Elementary School are welcomed back to classes, now being held at the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The fire burned the Palisades School and the Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for the students. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks to the media at the first day back to school in a new location for children from the Palisades Charter Elementary School which is now being held at the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The fire burned the Palisades School and the Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for the students. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Children who had attended Palisades Charter Elementary School are welcomed back to classes, now being held at the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The fire burned the Palisades School and the Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for the students. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Children who had attended Palisades Charter Elementary School are welcomed back to classes, now being held at the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The fire burned the Palisades School and the Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for the students. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Show Caption1 of 6A mother kisses her child goodbye on the first day back to school at Palisades Charter Elementary School which has been re-located to the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. The fire burned the Palisades School and the Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for the students. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
ExpandStudents from Palisades Charter Elementary School started school on Wednesday at Brentwood Science Magnet Elementary School, and students from Marquez Charter Elementary had their classes at Nora Sterry Elementary on the Westside.
“Schools will have a regular day, as teachers have worked around the clock to prepare classrooms,” according to the district.
The fires this month have had a sweeping impact on schools, especially for the nation’s second-largest school district. The fires caused the most extensive school closures since the COVID-19 pandemic, when LAUSD closed down its schools on March 16, 2020 and reopened for in-person learning in April, 2021.
Due to the Palisades and Eaton fires, LAUSD schools were initially closed on Wednesday, Jan. 8 because of poor air quality caused by the raging wildfires. Scores of schools across the Los Angeles area — public, private and parochial — were closed.
On Sunday evening, LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said he would reopen all schools and offices aside from schools that remained in a mandatory evacuation zone, and on Monday most LAUSD schools were open for classes. Meanwhile, schools in Malibu stayed closed until Jan. 13-15.
In schools impacted by the Eaton fire, La Canada Unified School District will remain closed until Jan. 16. Things were more uncertain in Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD).
A prepared statement from PUSD released on January 14 said, “As our community continues to navigate the devastating impacts of the Eaton Fire, Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) has been assessing the damage sustained across our campuses. Five PUSD school sites have been severely impacted: Eliot Arts Magnet Middle School, Franklin Elementary (closed in 2020), and three charter schools—Edison, Loma Alta, and Noyes.”
The school district is “actively assessing the extent of the damage and planning for the path forward toensure the continuity of student learning. Our grounds and facilities crews have also been workingtirelessly to replace air filters and clean and sanitize campuses, removing more than ten tons of debris. Inthe interim, PUSD schools will remain closed until Friday, Jan. 17, as we work on our reopening strategy.”
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