Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner announced Monday that schools will remain closed until summer through a live stream announcement.

This means that instruction will remain online through remote learning. With this, Beutner announced two caveats to the current grading system.

Students will not receive failing grades and students can only improve their grades from March 13. Students will not be penalized, meaning grades cannot go down.

With this announcement, Beutner also said that seniors will have a “virtual graduation,” for now as they wait for the instructions of state and local health authorities in regards to school instruction.

“Francisco Suavillo, the student representative on the Los Angeles Unified School Board, has been leading a group of students at my request to come up with recommendations on how we appropriately celebrate what for the class of 2020 has been a lifetime of hard work,” Beutner said.

Students who need to catch up on credits over the summer will also have to complete this online. For seniors who need to do so, Beutner says that educators are working with community college partners to fill in these missing credits to graduate.

“We will not allow the closure of school facilities to close the doors of opportunity for young adults earning a high school diploma and starting college,” said Beutner during the live stream.