Students in several San Diego-area school districts are heading back to class after a Superior Court judge issued an order on Monday temporarily blocking state officials from enforcing several rules that have prevented many schools across California from reopening. The judge, Cynthia Freeland, sided with a group of parents with the Parent Association of North County San Diego, writing in an order that the state’s reopening framework, released in January, is “selective in its applicability, vague in its terms, and arbitrary in its prescriptions.” The parents had argued the state’s framework was preventing some schools from reopening, and was permanently harming students, many of whom are struggling with online learning. National Review reported on the Parent Association’s efforts in February. Freeland issued a restraining order on Monday blocking state officials from enforcing the reopening framework. It directs the seven North County San Diego school
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CARLSBAD, Calif. Thousands of California parents who want to see their students return to school have experienced an emotional roller coaster this week, with many saying it’s hard to put any trust in the government’s conflicting narrative and decisions on school reopenings.
In early March, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $6.6 billion incentive plan, declaring that it was time for kids to safely return to the classroom. But just six days into the push, one of his health department appointees denied the applications of three San Diego-area school districts to expand in-person learning, overturning a decision by the top county public health official who had approved the districts’ opening plans two weeks ago.
Janis Selby Jones is an educator, artist, and environmentalist who cleans beaches in North County San Diego and creates art with the plastic debris that