Desert Sands Unified School District will send all students back to the classroom four days a week starting May 3.
After more than an hour of passionate public comments the majority of which were from those in favor of a return to in-person schooling the vote passed 5-0 during a special board meeting on Monday night.
The ruling eliminates the cohort concept in which half of the students that chose in-person learning attended classes Monday and Tuesday and the other half Thursday and Friday. Now all students at all grade levels can attend classes four days a week.
The school year ends on June 4, so the difference between the current two-day model and a four-day model would mean those students would have 20 days of in-person schooling instead of 10 over the final five weeks of the year.
Rally planned urging DSUSD to revisit proposal to bring all students back to campus four days per week Published
Rally planned urging DSUSD to revisit proposal to bring all students back to campus four days per week
A group of Desert Sands Unified School District parents, students and teachers announced they will be holding a rally on Friday night urging the district to revisit the proposal to bring all students back to campus four days per week instead of two.
The district announced shortly after this announcement that they will reconsider the proposal in a special meeting on Monday, April 26, at 5 p.m. The proposal would bring students K-11 back to campus four days per week, beginning May 3, 2021 for the remainder of the academic year. Those interested can provide public comment in advance of the Board meeting at this link.