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San Francisco school officials plan to reopen classrooms for some of the youngest students beginning April 12 under a tentative deal reached with the teachers union

A dispute over 2 feet of social distancing has emerged as an issue in negotiations to...

PITTSFIELD — The Pittsfield public schools have been accepted into a free COVID-19 testing initiative, as talks continue over what form of testing the county’s largest school system will follow, the interim superintendent said Monday. Entry into the state’s “pool” testing initiative was requested by the United Educators of Pittsfield during at-times contentious reopening talks with the district, while school leaders had said they planned to implement an alternative COVI...

While many districts have inched toward a partial reopening to in-person learning this...

  Interim Superintendent Joseph Curtis on outlined the ways that the school community will be protected from COVID-19 to the School Committee on Wednesday.   "Amazingly enough, were 17 days away from, Ill use the term anniversary although I dont think its anything to celebrate, from that March 13, 2020, when we had a series of very intense days with [former] Superintendent [Jason] McCandless and representatives, and certainly our mayor, and we made the decision ahead of our governor to cl...

Parents in San Francisco fed up with shuttered schools have launched a campaign to recall three elected members of the local school board.

San Francisco Bay Area school districts push to reopen schools Kindergarteners entering an elementary school in California On February 7, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) union reached an agreement to allow “limited instruction” when San Francisco County moves to the second highest “red” tier of the pandemic as defined by state governments guidelines, provided that teachers are vaccinated beforehand. If the county moves to the “orange” tier, then full in-person instructi...

San Francisco school board pauses reactionary school renaming campaign to focus on forcing schools open At a special school board meeting Tuesday night, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Board of Education announced a pause on their racialist campaign to rename 44 school sites in order to intensify efforts to reopen the city’s schools in a matter of weeks amidst the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of a halt to the renaming of schools comes nearly one month after the...

S.F. school board approves plan with labor unions to reopen classrooms FacebookTwitterEmail Clarendon Elementary second-grader Haruki Ishiyama attends Zoom class at a protest Thursday.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle San Francisco school officials unanimously approved a health and safety agreement with labor unions allowing the reopening of schools before the end of the academic year. The deal, approved during Tuesday’s school board meeting, is the first major hurdle in bringing the first st...

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) reached an agreement on how to safely reopen their public school system Tuesday night, but the fight on actually getting kids in the classroom is far from over.