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