Axios Re:Cap

The Week America Changed: LA Superintendent Austin Beutner on sending students home

Los Angeles Unified is the second largest school district in the country and 80% of its students live in poverty. 
Austin Beutner joins Axios Re:Cap to discuss how he made the decision to send students home, how he worked with Apple to procure half a million computers, and how he stood up one of the largest free meal programs in U.S. history — not just for students, but for anyone — which has now distributed over 110 million meals. 
Plus, Axios Re:Cap revisits a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing that hinted at where the days and months were headed.
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