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California may make it easier for parents to request that their children be held back a grade level next school year or have letter grades earned this school year changed to a “pass” or “don’t pass” score, which some colleges will be required to accept if Assembly Bill 104 becomes law.
The bill was introduced today by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, as a way to ensure that students aren’t punished for falling behind academically during the pandemic.
“The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated educational inequities in California’s school system at an unprecedented scale,” said Gonzalez in her author’s statement. “Mounting evidence indicates that our most vulnerable students lack the necessary academic, social emotional, and technological supports needed to be successful in distance learning, leaving them to fall behind and underperform.”
San Joaquin County surpasses 1,000 COVID-19 deaths since pandemic began
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COVID-19 has killed more people in San Joaquin County since March than the flu has over the past 10 years combined.
More than 700 San Joaquin County residents have died from the coronavirus since the pandemic began, while county public health data show the flu killed just under 100 people from 2010 to 2020. It s a much more striking disease, Park said. People get more severely ill with the COVID than they do the flu.
While the true death rate of COVID-19 won t be known for some time, estimates of the virus mortality ratio can range from 1% to 2% of those who have been infected or as high as twice that, Park said. The World Health Organization says the crude mortality rate of COVID-19 is about 3% to 4%.
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Distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to San Joaquin County residents that do not have access to them through healthcare providers such as Kaiser and Sutter Health will likely not start until early next month.
That is the result of weekly vaccine allotments from the state being cutback as well as orders to hold back 50 percent of all doses. The hold order is due to an effective vaccination requiring two doses 10 days a part. The fear is if the county doesn’t do that and future dose deliveries are reduced or are delayed thousands of people who have already received the first shot may be for naught given the second shot has to occur within 10 days.
MANTECA – The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged students, parents, teachers and administrators in unimaginable ways.
For 10 months, school districts around the country have navigated uncharted waters, balancing what they believe is best for students while trying to ensure their health and safety amid a global pandemic that continues to rage.
Manteca Unified, the third largest public school district in San Joaquin County behind Stockton (41,679) and Lodi (31,400) with 24,000 students and about 3,000 staff members, according to the California Department of Education, started blended/hybrid learning on Nov. 2 when the county moved from the most restrictive purple tier to the red tier in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. In the red tier, the district did not need a waiver from San Joaquin County Public Health Services.
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