LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino plans to introduce a motion next week asking the city attorney to explore legal options for forcing the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) to reopen its campuses for in- person learning, despite the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. “I stand with the 1,500 pediatricians in Southern California as well as the director of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] who are calling for the safe reopening of our schools,” Buscaino said in a statement Feb. 4. The Southern California Chapter 2 of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 1,500 pediatricians, released a statement Jan. 3 calling for schools to reopen. Public school campuses have remained largely shuttered because Los Angeles County is still in the most restrictive “purple” tier of the state’s COVID-19 economic-reopening roadmap. Under those restrictions, schools are permitted to offer in-person instruction only for limited numbers of high-needs students. Schools …