The pandemic. Theres no in class instruction unless the county that the school has located in has seen 14 days of declining covid cases. Now, this applies to public and k12 Public Schools. This would mandate all students in grades three through 12 to use the masks when on the campus. They say that they estimate that under the guidance about 90 of the California Public School Students will have to start the school year with the distanced learning. Troy flint with the School Board Says that by laying out the guidelines, the governor is taking pressure off of the states 1,000 School Districts to make these decisions. Were hungry for more guidance about what is essentially a Public Health issue. Theres so many contingencies that are beyond the capacity of the School Boards to deal with. Now, other rules expected to be announced today including enforcing a school with in class instruction to switch back to Distance Learning if more than 5 of temps and staff test positive for covid. The Scho
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The last one left off, away from the classroom. Thanks for joining us. No one will be sitting in these chairs anytime soon after the governor announced this afternoon that public and private School Students cannot go back to class until their counties can slow the spread of the coronavirus. Schools in counties on the states covid watch list are not going to be able to reopen until theyre able to reduce their numbers of cases for 14 consecutive days and so far that effects 43 of 58 counties. When schools do reopen most of the students will have to wear masks. The governor says california is the first state to explicitly have this kind of max mandate. Abc 7 reporter Leanne Melendez joining us now on a busy day of Decision Making for the governor. That was a long press conference. Now Many School Districts were hoping for this mandate because it puts the burden off of them. Now, heres oakland unified, for example, which had 3 55 this afternoon send out a press release to say we had alread
Rams livestreaming to students at home. I think that were already beginning to see across social media or through Informal Networks teachers talking about how they go about creating that classroom culture and connections with individual students. Reporter the District School board Vice President says there wont be as much confusion and scrambling as last year when the pandemic forced quick decisions on the run and the governors order is helpful. We have time to plan. We have time to organize. We have time to make sure kids have the devices they need, that we are using fewer platforms so that everybody kind of knows the technologies. Reporter the school board also plans to meet next week to address concerns by teachers who might be reluctant to instruct from school and find a way so they can teach from home yet still be ready for the first day of School August 12th. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. Robert, thank you. In Contra Costa County, several schools that were plannin
And we must accelerate in response. We have a small window of time right now to get our cases under control before we could see the large outbreaks that we are seeing around this country. The mayor pointed the finger directly at an increasingly complacent and growing segment of the population tired of cabin fever. People who are having gatherings with others outside of their households. San franciscans need to change their behavior. Gatherings remain inherently dangerous. At the general hospital, the average age of the person hospitalized with covid19 since july first has been 41 years. We dont have months, we barely have weeks. The mayor demands that private Health Insurance providers step up and speed up virus testing. One key to reopening. Were not reopening us how we get this under control. We are all at risk for this disease and all at risk for serious consequences. We have flattened this curve once and we must do it again. A negative test is not a passport to do what you want. On