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Ghost town. How bad is it for cal train . Its devastating. Were facing a fiscal cliff in october and the rail lane may simply cease to exist. Reporter rumming between San Francisco and san jose faces shutdown after the San Francisco board of supervisors failed to support a sales tax measure for the november ballot. The supervisor says there are bigger priorities. Our cities is facing a 1. 7 billion deficit right now. Our own Transportation Agency is suffering. Reporter muni facing its own financial crisis. Its director tweeting some sobering facts. Muni eliminating 40 bus lines. Golden gate transit cut half the service to San Francisco. B. A. R. T. Facing a billiondollar loss. Cal train may end service completely. This is public transit, reality in america. I think were now in a fast crisis. Reporter austin brown from the uc davis policy ins Institution Says transit may depends on a Covid Vaccine for riders to come back. Justbly needing to see good data and then get people comfortable
Person of usfld and make ends meet and showing support of people who have been experiencing something thats so, like, difficult during a pandemic and has affected so many families across the board . I want to fo know if theres any specific resources that youve given to staff that have been potentially laid off or have been, you know, reduced in hours because i know that affects a lot of nex income and families. Can you repeat the question . My main question was, basically how are staff and personnel being affected through phase one . I dont want to make any assumptions off the bat. But what are some resources that have been shared with staff and personnel whose hours might be cut or have been cut . I know personally, i know someone whose hours have been reduced to two hours a day and thats on minimum wage. And i would like to share that we have solidarit solidarity wif our workers and i want to know if there are any resources that come to mind, that would help these people or if anythi
Rams livestreaming to students at home. I think that were already beginning to see across social media or through Informal Networks teachers talking about how they go about creating that classroom culture and connections with individual students. Reporter the District School board Vice President says there wont be as much confusion and scrambling as last year when the pandemic forced quick decisions on the run and the governors order is helpful. We have time to plan. We have time to organize. We have time to make sure kids have the devices they need, that we are using fewer platforms so that everybody kind of knows the technologies. Reporter the school board also plans to meet next week to address concerns by teachers who might be reluctant to instruct from school and find a way so they can teach from home yet still be ready for the first day of School August 12th. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you. In Contra Costa County, several schools that were plannin
Home. None of us want to see education virtualize. Rising numbers of cases in california and a record high ostions ing grades three and about to wear masks and schools eventually reopen. We will bend the curve to the degree that we must. That has put us in this position. In the district that can open students would be encouraged but not mandated to maintain six feet of distance and the Staff Members will be tested. 80 of the populations leave living in watchlist counties and 12,000 schools will be closed to start in the fall. I know intimately dealing with extraordinary moments in our lives and their childrens lives and the pressure we put on parents is very intense. If the School Reopens the reality of closing it again is very possible and if a school sees 5 of students and teachers testing positive in the entire School Closes for mandatory 14 decor pointing and if more than four schools have 25 Positivity Rate than the entire district shuts down. 5. 6 billion in funding will address