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Advisers ponder more Napa campus closure options so as to preserve Harvest Middle School


Pushback by parents concerned about the possible closure of Harvest Middle School — and about reducing access for disadvantaged and minority students — is leading advisers to the Napa school district to look at other ways of shrinking the footprint of a public school system pressured by falling attendance.
The task force charged with helping the Napa Valley Unified School District adjust its budget to a contracting student body is turning its attention to a host of options that would shutter one of four middle schools in the city of Napa before the 2022-23 academic year but keep open Harvest on Old Sonoma Road, which hosts a dual English-Spanish curriculum and a student body more than three-quarters Latino. ....

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Despite COVID-19, students adjust to the 'new normal' at Napa elementary campus


What s life like at Napa elementary schools these days? Take a look inside Browns Valley Elementary.
Samie Hartley
Almost one year after COVID-19 temporarily emptied its campus of students, life at Browns Valley Elementary School in Napa has returned to “normal” — or at least a new normal.
Students are back on campus. Teachers have returned to their classrooms. Parents are once again picking up and dropping off in mornings and afternoons.
However, much of that routine now looks and works completely different than it did at the beginning of 2020.
The students are getting instruction five days a week. However, they attend classes in person only twice a week, for just two hours and 20 minutes a time. (On Wednesday, the NVUSD announced that it will offer four half-days a week of in-person instruction starting March 1.) ....

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