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PITTSFIELD — Mayor Linda Tyer has submitted her budget proposal to the City Council, foreshadowing the second year of budget talks held under the cloud of the pandemic. Despite the region’s success getting shots into arms, there was another sign last week that the pandemic is still very much with us — the Fourth of July Parade, the city’s largest annual tradition, has been cancelled for the second straight year in a row, while festival organizers brainstorm ways to mark the ...

In San Francisco and Los Angeles, tens of thousands of middle- and high-school students have returned to classrooms in which they sit at desks with their laptops and learn remotely—the latest twist in the slow reopening of public schools in the nation’s most populous state.

S.F. students face Zoom in a room at schools after 500 educators granted medical exemptions FacebookTwitterEmail Laura Codicetti, principal Bryant Elementary school, waves as she leads students to parents waiting outside the school during school dismissal on April 20 in San Francisco. Bryant has two educators who are not returning to the classroom due to medical accommodations.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle Thousands of San Francisco students heading back to their classrooms this month will be carr...

Los Angeles and Oakland educators to vote this week on unions’ deadly school reopening plans The Democratic Party–led drive to reopen West Coast schools has greatly intensified over the past week. Beginning Thursday, teachers in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will be voting on an agreement to return to in-person learning in the second largest school district in the US. On Sunday, the Oakland Education Association (OEA) announced that it too had reached a reopening deal with Oak...

SFUSD board approves plan to reopen San Francisco schools after year of distance learning FacebookTwitterEmail Jennifer Butterfoss, officer Campaign for Better San Francisco Public Schools, holds the camera on a laptop over the work of her son, James, 5, as he attends distance learning at Alvarado Elementary School.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle San Francisco public schools are expected to begin in-person learning for preschool through fifth graders, special education students and vulnerable older ...

It's worth reminding people that if President Joe Biden were compelled to live by the standards he intends to institute for college students accused of sexual misconduct, he would be

As schools prepare to reopen, Asian American, Black and Hispanic families are opting to keep their children in distance learning at disproportionately high rates.

Another back-to-school hurdle: Students of color don't want to go back

Fort Worth Weekly Slowing the Covid Slide Local students are falling behind due to COVID-19, so what do school leaders plan to do about it? By Edward Brown Photo courtesy of iStock. As news of the COVID-19 pandemic spread, many Fort Worth public school teachers began their 2020 Spring Break unsure about how the school district would handle the remainder of spring classes. When teachers did return to their respective classrooms, it was to grab their school supplies for an indefinite ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco school officials plan to reopen classrooms for some...