Allowed to open this school year with in class instruction unless the counties remain off the list for two weeks. He was joined by the States Health secretary at the briefing. Gov. Newsom to make sure that we are attending, as anticipate this time of year, to so many other responsibilities. I want to talk about what we are putting out in terms of guidance and guidelines for education in the state of california in the context of covid19. We will go through a list of specific recommendations, specific guidance, as well as allting you, as we do on the information related to Positivity Rates, hospitalization rates and icus in the state. Let me begin first with foundational framework. That is our bottom line. That learning in the state of california is simply nonnegotiable that schools must provide meaningful instruction during this pandemic, whether they are physically opened, the schools, or not. That is what i want to talk about specifically today. Students, teachers, staff and parents,
That meeting did last until 3 00 this morning. The Council Voted to support a proposal to cut the Police Departments budget in half. And the big headline is that part of that proposal would be to cut Traffic Enforcement from the Police Department so to not have police pull people over for traffic violations, and this is believed to be that it would be the first city in the nation to make this move. Now, this is the first step in creating a City Department of transportation and that would allow for unarmed City Employees to deal with Traffic Enforcement. The vote came hours after a Public Comment session. Here is a sample of what was said. Traffic enforcement does not need to be an armed police concept. I support the proposal to cut 50 from the Police Budget. We as brown folk have been crying for help. You guys are not understanding that the police do not protect us. Reporter the council also voted to support having police stop handling homeless and Mental Health issues. These decisions
Contra costa county. I hope the students can get back to school because thats where the best learning is done for everyone. Reporter she says shes been hoping to send her daughter back to school in a few weeks. Concords two catholic high schools had been looking at a partial reopening. They must begin this school year this fall through Distance Learning. Reporter but the governors new mandate means those plans are likely to change. Parents we talk to say theyre not happy. This is formative time. They need to be in school, in class with their peers, with their teachers facetoface learning. I dont think anything should be shutdown. They dont shut anything down for the flu. Reporter the Liberty School district in east Contra Costa County also planned to reopen its high schools using the hybrid model. Now the district has just three weeks to gear up to go all virtual. I think the best way to describe how im feeling is sad. Sad as an educator, sad as a superintendent, sad as a parent. Repor
Yesterday, we made the amazing announcement for our plans to protect nursing home residents. Were working very hard on that. Were doing very well all over the country, and also about contracting with pfizer. We made a big, big, beautiful contract with pfizer. We think theyre very close, but we have a lot of companies that are very close to produce a vaccine. And i wanted to come out again today to share some additional news with you. This afternoon, my Political Team came to me and laid out our plans for the convention in jacksonville, florida. Its a place i love and i love that state. The drawings look absolutely beautiful. I never thought we could have something look so good so fast with everything going on. And everything was going well. A tremendous list of speakers, thousands of people wanting to be there, and i mean, in some cases desperately be there. They wanted to attend. People making travel arrangements all over the country. They wanted to be there. The pageantry, the signs,
August 17. Small groups of priority students may be able to do inperson school. And once data suggests its safe, a gradual return to a hybrid distance and inperson plan would return. I spoke to an Elementary School teacher who said she is crushed that she cant return to her classroom. I think its sort of coming from the viewpoint of seeing my sons preschool teachers be comfortable with going back and just missing the students and the connections we were building. Reporter Oakland Unified School district announced their plans to also start at a distance. Phase 1 will be four weeks of remote learning, and then the science will determine the next blended phase of inperson and distance instruction. The kids that have the highest needs will be focusing on them first to get them back into inperson instruction. So that would be special ed. That would be homeless kids, foster kids. We are still trying to work out exactly how this is going to work for parents who need to work. Logistically, it