LOS ANGELES — In November, the student-run news website of Daniel Pearl Magnet High School in Lake Balboa published a story naming a faculty member who had refused to comply with the district's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The piece from the Pearl Post — an award-winning student publication at a school named after a slain U.S. journalist — was well-reported, accurate and important to the school community, the students and 1st Amendment experts said. But it has led to a battle over censorship as the Los Angeles Unified School District seeks to take disciplinary action against the students' journalism adviser.
"In LAUSD, about 240 teachers opted out of getting the vaccine, which led to them not showing up to school on Oct. 18," the Post reported. "Among them was teacher-librarian Greta Enszer from Daniel Pearl Magnet High School."
