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Recently released guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control direct that most schools in San Diego County should not reopen, but those advocating for a.
Parents, Educators React to President Biden s Plan to Reopen Schools President Biden signs an executive order to support schools to re-open safely during his first one hundred days in office, but there is no requirement schools re-open within a certain time frame By Rory Devine •
Updated on January 21, 2021 at 11:50 pm
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On his first full day in office, President Biden signed several executive orders, including one that would his goal of reopening schools during his first 100 days in office. It is called, Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers.
The strategy includes ramping up testing, speeding up the rollout of vaccines, especially for teachers and school staff, and more funding for schools. The president said it puts the “full force of the government” behind the efforts.
Davison is a co-founder of the Parent Association of North County San Diego, an organization that includes school districts in Carlsbad, San Marcos, Oceanside, and Vista, as well as the San Dieguito Union High School District.
“What we ve noticed when we started talking to the parents in other districts is that we were all encountering the same problems,” Davison said.
Davison said that there has been pushback from teacher’s unions, concerns about a lack of substitute teachers, the purple tier and safety protocols being in place, all of which, he said, has been or can be addressed.
“In fact . one of our projects, as part of our association, is to hire substitutes and get parents to volunteer to be substitute teachers,” Davison said.
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Parents of students in five local school districts have joined forces to form the Parent Association of North County San Diego, to advocate for students’ needs amid the pandemic and beyond.
They organized in response to protracted school closures that began in March, with parents asking themselves how they could expedite the move from distance learning back to campus, said Ginny Merrifield, one of the organization’s founders.
“How can we influence decision-making so that kids can choose to go back to school now,” she said. “Out of that conversation, we needed to realize that we need to share our resources and our stories, and put a lens on the decisions to put students first.”