Gavin Newsom unveiled his ambitious plan to get California elementary school students back in their classrooms when COVID-19 conditions improve, educators are unwilling to give the assignment a passing grade. Representatives of education unions have made it clear that the loosened COVID-19 threshold in the governor’s plan — reopening elementary school campuses when counties report up to 25 new infections per 100,000 people — is unacceptable. And they argue virus testing isn’t enough, that teachers and school employees want what all Californians want: vaccinations. We are behind in distributions of the vaccine,” said David Schapira, the government relations director of the California School Employees Assn. Perhaps the surest sign that Newsom’s much-touted plan to get thousands of California elementary school students back to in-person learning is how few communities have embraced it.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2021 13:03 UTC