Link copied.New law would help students who fell behind academically during pandemic
California may make it easier for parents to request that their children be held back a grade level next school year or have letter grades earned this school year changed to a “pass” or “don’t pass” score, which some colleges will be required to accept if Assembly Bill 104 becomes law.
The bill was introduced today by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, as a way to ensure that students aren’t punished for falling behind academically during the pandemic.
“The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated educational inequities in California’s school system at an unprecedented scale,” said Gonzalez in her author’s statement. “Mounting evidence indicates that our most vulnerable students lack the necessary academic, social emotional, and technological supports needed to be successful in distance learning, leaving them to fall behind and underperform.”
2 UC Berkeley students test positive for UK variant as campus sees spike in COVID-19 cases
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People walk on the empty UC Berkeley campus during the coronavirus shelter-in-place order in Berkeley, Calif. on March 25, 2020.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGate
Researchers at UC Berkeley are leading one of the country s more rigorous genome sequencing operations to identify new variants of COVID-19. Their most recent effort uncovered some worrisome cases, as the university experiences a surge forcing all students in dorms to self-sequester to contain the spread, according to a news release.
Two students tested positive for a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first detected in the United Kingdom.
A panel of UC Berkeley faculty and staff addressed questions and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine during a Campus Conversations series virtual event.