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PLAYING OPRAH: Gov. Gavin Newsom slow-jogged with swagger onto the stage of The Late Late Show with James Corden last night with an air of confidence and relaxation we haven’t seen in a long time.
VACAVILLE Kristyn Andrews, assistant principal at Cambridge and Foxboro elementary schools, has been selected as Elementary Co-Administrator of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators.
Travis School District trustees will recognize the honor when they meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday
DEL MAR
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The Del Mar City Council met in closed session Monday to discuss litigation, property negotiations and personnel. In regular session, the council heard a presentation by Scripps Institution of Oceanography on coastal bluff erosion. The council will also hold a public hearing on several resolutions regarding the reconfiguration of eight lots known as “La Atalaya,” totaling about 18 acres, into eight lots south of San Dieguito Road, north of Zapo Street, east of Gatun Road and west of Serpentine Drive. The council approved the resolutions with an amendment to preserve walls in most of the lots. The council also heard its annual financial report for 2019-2020.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his ambitious plan to get California elementary school students back in their classrooms when COVID-19 conditions improve, educators are unwilling
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Educators remain in limbo. For some, Newsom’s proposal threatens to upend months of work they’ve done to craft local plans based on the state’s summer guidance. Those rules link reopening to a county’s ability to stay out of California’s most restrictive virus conditions tier for at least 14 days, with case-by-case exceptions, while setting rules on protective equipment, COVID-19 testing and contact tracing.
Those rules were put in place five months ago. No one expected that Newsom would wait to change them until five days after Christmas.
“I was very excited that we had our plan,” said Campbell Union School District Supt. Shelly Viramontez during Thursday’s state Senate committee hearing. “And it feels like yet again, the goalposts moved. And things have changed. And there are new requirements that were never known before.”