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San Francisco SUES its own school district and board of education to get kids back in classrooms as quickly as possible amid COVID shutdown San Francisco will be filing the lawsuit against the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District on Wednesday   Suit alleges that the district and board violated a state law that required districts to adopt a clear plan during the pandemic as it relates to in-person education The plan was supposed to describe actions the...

5:23 Last week, the Pittsfield, Massachusetts school committee unanimously voted for a phased return to in-person education to begin today — the first time since COVID-19 concerns forced a move to remote learning in November. But United Educators of Pittsfield, the city’s teachers’ union, says the decision came out of nowhere and was not made in consultation with school district employees. Union President Melissa Campbell tells WAMC that the move violates an agreement with the city’s te...

PITTSFIELD — With COVID-19 infections trending favorably, Pittsfield students will begin a gradual transition back to the classroom next week. The School Committee on Wednesday voted to begin the process with vocational, career and technical students returning to school Monday, followed by special education students in substantially separate programs Feb. 8. The rest of the student body will begin transitioning to hybrid learning the week of Feb. 22. “Taking into consideration Pittsfi...

  Career and vocational students Grades 10-12 will return to classrooms on Monday; certain special education classes including Stearns first and second grade inclusions begin Monday, Feb. 8, and all other students return no sooner than the week of Feb. 22 "or as soon as realistically possible."   The schools began the year in full remote learning and then modified to partial in-person by mid-fall.    But the dramatic increases in COVID-19 cases within the city in November caused the d...

As the teachers unions buttress their roadblocks to reopening schools, parental choice is more important than ever In September 2020, researchers Corey DeAngelis and Christos Makridis released the results of a study which found that school districts in places with strong teachers’ unions were much less likely to offer full-time, in-person instruction in the fall. The authors stressed that the results were remarkably consistent after controlling for differences in demographics, including age...

The new funding will come from the citys Department of Children, Youth and their Families and will support surveillance testing provided by the citys Latino Task Force. "We are grateful for the expertise and additional resources provided by the mayor, the city agencies and the Latino Task Force to help us meet the new demands of operating schools during the pandemic," SFUSD Superintendent Vincent Matthews said. "Surveillance testing of our staff is key to being ready to serve students in-person...

Were learning who is likely to be next when it comes to getting one of the coronavirus vaccines. Healthcare workers in Tier 1A are currently getting the vaccine. In January well start seeing those from Tier 1B get the vaccine. The Community Vaccine Advisory Committee is made up of dozens of people from Californias health divisions. That includes California Health and Human Services Agency and the California Department of Public Health. They recommend that four groups be next in line to get the...

Public School Reopenings Put Off As District, Labor Unions Cant Reach Agreement Over Safety Measures Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Twelve San Francisco public schools will not reopen in January as planned as the district has yet to reach a deal with labor unions over COVID-19 safety measures, the San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday. In-person learning was slated to resume Jan. 25, for preschoolers, kindergarteners and first-graders as well as ...

Skip to main content S.F. schools wont reopen in late January after teachers union, district fail to reach a deal FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 John Muir Elementary School in San Francisco was going to be among the first to reopen in the city.Lance Iversen / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Glen Park Elementary School was to be one of the first to reopen in the city.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of3 The San Francisco school district and its teachers union failed to reach an...

London Breed and parents rage after SFUSD again delays school openings FacebookTwitterEmail Glen Park Elementary School in San FranciscoYelp / Elisha A. Officials from the San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that the citys schools would not move forward with plans to begin to reopen schools for in-person learning on Jan. 25 after the district and its teachers union failed to come to an agreement on a reopening plan. The Jan. 25 date was set as a target by the school board in ...