MANTECA – The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged students, parents, teachers and administrators in unimaginable ways.
For 10 months, school districts around the country have navigated uncharted waters, balancing what they believe is best for students while trying to ensure their health and safety amid a global pandemic that continues to rage.
Manteca Unified, the third largest public school district in San Joaquin County behind Stockton (41,679) and Lodi (31,400) with 24,000 students and about 3,000 staff members, according to the California Department of Education, started blended/hybrid learning on Nov. 2 when the county moved from the most restrictive purple tier to the red tier in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. In the red tier, the district did not need a waiver from San Joaquin County Public Health Services.
Week in review: Vaccine brings new hope in virus fight [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
A vaccine that comes at possibly the darkest period yet in the coronavirus pandemic is bringing new hope and the prospect of a break for area and state hospitals under siege by a crush of critical coronavirus patients.
More: First San Joaquin County frontline health care workers receive COVID-19 vaccine
By week’s end, as the county’s death toll had hit 561 and California recorded more than 41,000 new cases and 300 deaths in a single day Friday, health care workers were continuing to receive the new Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The rollout will continue over the coming days, weeks and months in phases, with the highest risk first in line. By phase 4, everyone in the U.S. should have a chance for the shot.
By week’s end, as the county’s death toll had hit 561 and California recorded more than 41,000 new cases and 300 deaths in a single day Friday, health care workers were continuing to receive the new Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The rollout will continue over the coming days, weeks and months in phases, with the highest risk first in line. By phase 4, everyone in the U.S. should have a chance for the shot.
“Hope is springing up everywhere,” Dr. Scott Neeley, vice president and chief medical officer at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, said in a virtual community update Friday. “We can see the light at the end of the tunnel with respect to this pandemic, but we have to stay safe together.”
How Manteca Unified’s K-12 hybrid model has been received by some parents [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series examining the effects of COVID-19 on education. Coming soon, the effects on educators.
MANTECA – Since November, Manteca Unified, the third largest public school district in San Joaquin County, has enacted a K-12 hybrid model for on-campus, in-person instruction.
Though not perfect, some parents say it’s been an improvement over virtual distance learning employed countywide last spring and this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. Under Manteca Unified’s hybrid model, elementary school students follow a morning-afternoon schedule four days a week and high school students attend classes on campus two-days per week and participate in distance learning two days. All students distance-learn on Wednesdays when schools are cleaned and sanitized. Parents can opt for the district’s online academy or independent study
Editor s note: This is the first in an occasional series examining the effects of COVID-19 on education. Coming soon, the effects on educators.
MANTECA – Since November, Manteca Unified, the third largest public school district in San Joaquin County, has enacted a K-12 hybrid model for on-campus, in-person instruction.
Though not perfect, some parents say it’s been an improvement over virtual distance learning employed countywide last spring and this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. Under Manteca Unified s hybrid model, elementary school students follow a morning-afternoon schedule four days a week and high school students attend classes on campus two-days per week and participate in distance learning two days. All students distance-learn on Wednesdays when schools are cleaned and sanitized. Parents can opt for the district’s online academy or independent study program, which includes live instruction from kindergarten through sixth grade.