Based on the watchlist which includes about 80 of the states population. There is one exception to the rules. Local Health Officials can allow Elementary Schools to reopen in person if local superintendents request a waiver. He laid out strict guidelines for reopening california schools. Chief among them, public and private schools can only physically reopen when its county has been off the monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. Right now, more than 30 of californias 58 counties are on the list including most of the bay area. Schools that dont meet this requirement, they must begin the school year, this fall, through Distance Learning. Reporter the guidelines include the following. Required masks for adults annot students. Students should distance from each other as much as possible. School should provide symptom checks, sanitization and handwashing patients and test forever any employee at least twice a month. Our default is in person, but we have to do it in a safe way and we have
Rams livestreaming to students at home. I think that were already beginning to see across social media or through Informal Networks teachers talking about how they go about creating that classroom culture and connections with individual students. Reporter the District School board Vice President says there wont be as much confusion and scrambling as last year when the pandemic forced quick decisions on the run and the governors order is helpful. We have time to plan. We have time to organize. We have time to make sure kids have the devices they need, that we are using fewer platforms so that everybody kind of knows the technologies. Reporter the school board also plans to meet next week to address concerns by teachers who might be reluctant to instruct from school and find a way so they can teach from home yet still be ready for the first day of School August 12th. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you. In Contra Costa County, several schools that were plannin
For younger kids, distancing required between adults from each other and students, students from distance from each other as much as possible. Test for every employee at least twice a month. Default is in person but we have to do it in a safeway and we have to do it in a way that can guarantee the health of not just our kids, but also those that are entrusted with their care. There is no question of. This week they called for more direction from the more than 1000 districts and 6000 students. They have already announced the year will start with distance learning, the guidance also details when to shut down in person learning, you close the classroom when there is one for two weeks, you close a school with a 5 Positivity Rate and you close a district of 25 schools reached the code. Governor newsom has exposed millions of kids through untold trauma and loss. Im not looking to score cheap political points with different points of view. One of the big concerns for appearances about the qua
reporter: [ inaudible question ] not at all, we have worked hard here, we are continuing. is is it, i m not concerned about it at all. reporter: south carolina often referred to as biden s firewall. that could be in doubt, he does say he is fighting for every vote in new hampshire and so is everybody else. new hampshire polls opened early this morning amid poor weather conditions. the snow and rain in some parts of the state have not stopped long lines of voters from showing up to the polls. in the end, i decided to vote with my gut rather than a strategy in terms of the general election. reporter: raising the stakes in today s primary is the democrat lack of a front runner. the latest result in i want prevented a clear favorite from emerging. senator bernie sanders in intertie with pete buttigieg there. both men feel confident in victory in new hampshire. it feels fantastic. all gears fired up, the energy on the ground is wonderful. reporter: senator elizabeth
the world health organization called a meeting next week, to coordinate the international response to the virus. we do not know the source of the outbreak. we do not properly understand its ability to transmit. the state department says there are 500 more americans that need to be evacuated from china. we are learning how the 176 people, already living under quarantine at travis air force base, are spending the next two weeks. some families are talking about their experience on social media. many say they are glad to be back in the united states, and are well cared for with three meals per day and twice a day temperature checks. one man told reporters that his wife and their two young daughters have everything they need inside the west wind in. they brought diapers, baby food, baby wipes, and all of these things were supplied in the hotel on the air force base. one quarantined man, posted on instagram that he can walk around the hotel freely, and go outside. he cann