Back to class | L.A. Unified begins the 2018-19 school year

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.

Kelly Rodriguez comforts her daughter, Ashley Morales, on her first day of kindergarten, at Dolores Huerta Elementary School.

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.

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.

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.

Students wait for their school bus on Rodeo Road in Los Angeles, as LAUSD begins the new school year.