virtual learning

Philanthropy, federal relief funding and other community driven efforts to close the digital divide in a year of remote schooling have helped significantly to bring more children online. But many families remain underconnected.

See why Recipe Oak Cliff, a plant-based restaurant in Dallas, Texas, closed its kitchen and launched a virtual series of healthy recipes for “one more pandemic pivot.”

See why Recipe Oak Cliff, a plant-based restaurant in Dallas, Texas, closed its kitchen and launched a virtual series of healthy recipes for “one more pandemic pivot.”

With the delta variant of COVID-19 on the rise just as children and parents are getting ready to head back to school, parents face anxiety over what the bigger risk is for their kids – continuing to learn in isolation, or getting sick? Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 on Aug. 2, 2021.

The Delta variant of COVID-19 is surging in LA County, as students prepare to return to in-person learning this fall. LAUSD is offering a virtual learning alternative to in-person classes, leaving parents with a choice to make by July 30. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 on July 21, 2021.

Before his kindergarten classes begin for the day, Raynardo Antonio Ocasio watches from his mother’s third-floor bedroom window as his classmates line up on the sidewalk below.

The science-cool happening will be virtual, giving SoCal kids the chance to connect from home with science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

An OC teacher has  gone out of her way to capture this school year in a creative yearbook even though many of the students went months without being on campus. Vikki Vargas reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on March 26, 2021. 

The pandemic meant the first school experience many kindergartners would have would be online and at home, so their teachers looked for ways to make them feel like part of their school community. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on March 19, 2021.

A group of six teenagers from Ulysses Grant High School in Los Angeles, are celebrating the fruits of long hours of study. Despite the pandemic, the students just won the 2021 LAUSD Academic Decathlon, a historic first win for the school.

Presidential impersonators will present an hour long course on American history, civics and government that will be streamed Monday by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum for Presidents Day.

Pressure is building on school systems around the U.S. to reopen classrooms to students who have been learning online for nearly a year

An effort to reopen California schools is foundering, stoking frustrations across America’s most populous state from parents eager to get their children back in classrooms and a governor who wants them there.

The Van Nuys Airport has created a free virtual airport tour for children in need of at-home learning adventures amid the COVID- 19 pandemic.

With Los Angeles Unified campuses remaining largely closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the district and its teachers union extended their labor agreement Friday governing distance learning, with the pact including additional office hours and up to 30 more minutes of instruction time on Mondays.

A return to class is nowhere in sight. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.

After months of school disruptions and remote teaching due to COVID-19, researchers are starting to see some of the impact on learning. Megan Kuhfeld, a senior research scientist with the nonprofit NWEA, joined LX News to explain a study that found that the pandemic has led to many students falling behind in math specifically.

Teachers in the Huntington Beach unified high school district say that district officials have told them to go back to campus in January for in-person teaching or go on leave. Vikki Vargas reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2020.

A new program offered through Claremont Colleges is providing prisoners at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco with access to four-year bachelor degree opportunities, via livestreamed classes that traditional students also attend. The “Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA” at Pitzer College in Claremont is focused on giving incarcerated individuals the means to acquire liberal arts degrees, and the first eight enrollees from the...

Kids, from kindergarten up through the 5th grade, are invited to check out the new online experiences from the Exposition Park hub of learning fun.