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After one of the most disruptive years in public education, Palo Alto Unified and its teachers union are negotiating salary increases, with the union asking for a higher raise than the district has proposed.
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There can be a lot of pressure on our teachers to do different things, board member Jennifer DiBrienza said. Let s just be patient right now.
The high schools student board representatives urged board members to proactively seek feedback on the new plan from students after they have had time to think through the option of returning to school.
District staff will bring a proposal to the next board meeting to provide COVID-19 testing for secondary school students, Austin said. Employees are currently tested on a biweekly basis.
Austin cautioned that this is a temporary, limited step toward reopening for this school year. The district still hopes to return to normal school five days a week of in-person learning in the fall.
Due to family circumstances and hoping for a postponed basketball season, however, Sebastian returned to Palo Alto for his second semester. He s glad to be home but struggled with the transition back to online school a sharp contrast to the noisy hallways in Copenhagen and his memories of socializing with friends on the quad at Palo Alto High School. Ironically, his younger brother is also back to online school temporarily until Denmark lifts a lockdown implemented after the new COVID-19 variant was discovered there. I was smiling the whole day. I couldn t help myself. I was so excited to be able to come into a class environment.