A federal lawsuit challenging San Diego’s mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students as discriminatory is poised to be formally dismissed after the Supreme Court of California struck it down last month.
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) was one of the few in the United States that required students to receive the vaccine for in-person instruction while not offering a religious exemption, but the enthusiasm for strict COVID-19 mitigation efforts has waned since the height of the pandemic.
School districts in Los Angeles and Oakland had also tried to enforce a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for students.
State officials said in February that they were abandoning plans to impose a statewide mandate….