How Gov. Newsom became an ardent advocate of school reopenings
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California Gov. Gavin NewsomPatrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images
California’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been, to say the least, erratic, with ever-changing state decrees on business openings and closings and personal conduct and, most recently, a chaotic rollout of vaccinations.
There has been, however, one constant. The state’s public schools quickly shut down when Gov. Gavin Newsom declared an emergency and assumed one-man command of the crisis, and with few exceptions they have remained shuttered ever since.
The shutdown, coupled with other restrictions, effectively quarantined 6 million schoolchildren in their homes while school authorities attempted, with uneven success at best, to continue classes via the internet.