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S.F. teachers, district negotiate over how many hours, days a week to return for live instruction FacebookTwitterEmail Alana Lee (left), 6 years old, shows Legos made in the learning hub inside San Francisco’s Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center in July. The hubs were opened to help struggling families facing shuttered schools.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of5 Susan Solomon (right), president of UESF, talks to SEIU Local 1021 field representative Kim-Shree Maufas at...

PITTSFIELD — With 200,000 masks stockpiled and 600 air purifiers on their way, Pittsfield school officials indicated Wednesday they are ready to bring more students and staff back into classrooms.

PITTSFIELD — Union teachers in Pittsfield say a mandate from the School Committee to resume in-person instruction violates a labor agreement and should be scrapped.

San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews also says vaccines are key but admits not everything is in the districts control. "Were not at [phase] 1-B yet, which is teachers, educational staff being vaccinated," Matthews said. "So, the time frame — this is what Dr. Fauci has said repeatedly — is that we dont set the timeline. The virus sets the timeline." As for other districts, the Oakland Unified School District says its waiting for more guidance from the sta...

Deal to bring S.F. students back to classrooms leaves many questions unanswered FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 David Thompson, Luis Tamayo and their son, Lucas, 9, head home from Adda Clevenger School in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 15, 2020.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Health Science teacher Evan Mundahl works to educate his students on the coronavirus through group project work in his first period class at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in Sa...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Interim Superintendent of Schools Joseph Curtis delivered hope in his weekly update to Pittsfield Public School students, staff, and family on Friday of plans to return...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Interim Superintendent of Schools Joseph Curtis delivered hope in his weekly update to Pittsfield Public School students, staff, and family on Friday of plans to return...

San Francisco district and unions agree on school reopening plan after city lawsuit On Saturday, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF), a collection of several unions representing all school employees, reached a tentative agreement with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) with a phased reopening plan to force 52,000 students and teachers back into schools for in-person learning. Under the new framework, which has yet to be voted on by teachers and school workers, schools wi...

S.F. school district, unions reach tentative deal to reopen classrooms FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Parents pick up work packets at George Peabody Elementary in San Franciscos Richmond District on Dec. 9, 2020.Emily FancherShow MoreShow Less 2of9 Kevin Robinson, a San Francisco guest teacher, displays signs his first-grade son Reid made for a news conference calling for the city’s schools to reopen in-person instruction.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of9 4of9 Student...

Feb. 8—Unions representing San Francisco Unified School District employees announced a tentative agreement with the district Sunday to safely reopen the city’s public schools — a major step in a contentious, monthslong debate that has pitted city officials against district leaders.