Parent advocates annouced they have reached a settlement with L.A. Unified to address pandemic-era academic inequities.

A key part of the agreement calls for high-dose tutoring for 100,000 students.

A hard-fought lawsuit to bring more live teaching and better technology to the Los Angeles school system at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is ending — five years later — with an agreement to provide tutoring and other supports to an estimated 100,000 students.

The length of the litigation means that no student of high school age when the pandemic began will be able to benefit.

A group of parents alleged in the suit that the L.A. Unified School District failed to meet state educational standards, disproportionately harming Black and Latino students.

The settlement “ensures that over

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