The Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting this afternoon to discuss whether or not to permit in-person learning for the second half of the 2020-2021 school year. Reporter Andrew Dieleman has the details…
At today’s meeting, the board will begin in closed session at 4 p.m. to conference with labor negotiators. In open session at 4:15 p.m., the board will make a final decision on whether schools will resume with an in-person or hybrid model, or continue current distance learning models on January 19. Public comments on the topic will be accepted from 9 a.m. to one hour before the meeting begins. The meeting will be held via YouTube Live from the official MUSD YouTube Page.
The Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees met in open session last night where they swore in new Trustees Megan Berge, Robert Hamilton, and Cathy Nelson; and returning Board Member Kerri Condley. With new trustees welcomed, the board went on to a bleak report on the tentative reopening of district schools for in-person learning. Reporter Andrew Dieleman has more…
New Trustees Cathy Nelson (left), Robert Hamilton (center), and Megan Berge (right) were official sworn in as new Trustees for the Morongo Unified School District. Returning Trustee Keri Condley was also sworn in
for her second term, but her camera was turned off.
San Bernardino County has filed an action in the California Supreme Court asking the court to find that the governor’s stay-at-home orders exceed the authority found in the California Emergency Services Act. The county seeks to exercise local control in response to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than be restrained by the state’s regional approach that treats San Bernardino County the same as significantly different counties. San Bernardino County has urged the state to recognize that the county’s size and geographic diversity should allow for fewer restrictions in communities with lower COVID-19 metrics than the county as a whole.