The Los Angeles Unified School Board announced the launch of Daily Pass, a tool that can be used to coordinate health checks, COVID tests and vaccinations and a critical component of the district’s “Safe Steps to Safe Schools” reopening plan.

“The Daily Pass sets the highest standard possible for school safety,” L.A Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner said. “MERV-13 upgraded air filters in every school, COVID testing for all students and staff at least every week and now the Daily Pass – Los Angeles Unified is proud to lead the nation in creating the safest possible school environment.”

The tool can be accessed from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. It generates a unique QR code for each student and staff member that authorizes entry to a specific district location for that day only, as long as the individual receives a negative COVID test, shows no symptoms and has a temperature under 100 degrees. Once the individual arrives on campus, their QR code is scanned by a district site leader who takes their temperature.

“Since last June, our teams have been collaborating closely with Los Angeles Unified to support running schools remotely,” said Eran Meggido, corporate vice president Windows product and education at Microsoft. “We are pleased to be working with Los Angeles Unified to help educators, staff and students return to schools sooner and safer.”

L.A. Unified’s school-based vaccination program uses Daily Pass to register and schedule appointments, track vaccines in stock, perform check-in and data capture at time of appointment, sort high-risk individuals, offer waitlists to low-risk individuals and dashboards to view data, among other features. All the information is shared with appropriate authorities.

The Daily Pass was tailored to accommodate the diverse types of people who visit a school campus on any given day and to include functions tied to COVID testing and contact tracing and vaccination. Anonymized data from Daily Pass will be used by the district’s research and health care collaborators – Stanford University, UCLA, the Johns Hopkins University, Anthem Blue Cross, Healthnet and Cedars Sinai – to provide insights for strategies to create the safest possible school environment.

Students, families and employees can access the Daily Pass at dailypass.lausd.net. Students and employees should use their Los Angeles Unified logins. Family members can login using their Parent Portal accounts