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Gov. Gavin Newsom offers plan to reopen in-person schools
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a plan Wednesday for schools to resume in-person teaching next spring, starting with the youngest students and those who have struggled most with distance learning while assisting with $2 billion in state aid for coronavirus testing, personal protective equipment and increased classroom ventilation.
“Safety is key. Just reopening a school for in-person instruction on its own is not going to address the issue of safety,” Newsom said, promising sanctions for schools that don’t follow safety rules.
Yet “in-person instruction . is our default,” he said, citing pitfalls from remote learning including increased anxiety, depression and undetected child abuse.
OBITUARY: Dean Murakami, Research Scientist and Professor of Psychology
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SACRAMENTO Dean Malcolm Murakami passed away peacefully on Dec. 23, finally succumbing to the cancer he bravely fought for many years.
Dean Murakami
Born in 1952 to Chikashi and Marjorie Murakami in Los Angeles, he was a proud product of the Los Angeles Unified School District. After high school, he attended Harbor Junio College, CSU Long Beach and UC Riverside, where he earned a Ph.D. in psychology and met his future wife, Patricia.
Murakami’s achievements include serving as a scientific director of NASA mission STS-90, NeuroLab, on the space shuttle Columbia, publishing over 35 scientific articles about how the brain regulates the “on and off” rhythm organized around the day.