Back to class | L.A. Unified begins the 2018-19 school year
Leslie Toriz, in white shirt, plays with her cousin Alex Toriz as the third-graders wait for doors to open on their first day back at Dolores Huerta Elementary School in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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Apolonia Aragon holds the hand of daughter Josefa Aragon as parents with students form a line at the front door on the children’s first day of kindergarten at Dolores Huerta Elementary School in Los Angeles.
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Kelly Rodriguez comforts her daughter, Ashley Morales, on her first day of kindergarten, at Dolores Huerta Elementary School.
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Students form lines on the playground as they prepare to go to their classrooms on the first day of the school year at Dolores Huerta Elementary.
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Students arrive at Baldwin Hills Elementary School for the first day of class for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school system.
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School bus driver Sharon Clark comforts a teary-eyed Porter Everist, 6, as he arrives at Community Magnet School on the first day of class.
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Students wait for their school bus on Rodeo Road in Los Angeles, as LAUSD begins the new school year.
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