Napa Valley Unified School District announced today that it has been awarded a K-12 Strong Workforce Program grant to help fund its new Agricultural Science Innovation Center, which will replace and expand upon its prior Vintage Farm site. The district plans to break ground on the project in the new year.
Napaâs public school network will soon take a large step toward restoring traditional on-campus teaching, nearly a year after the novel coronavirus abruptly forced thousands of students out of classrooms and into months of online learning.
Beginning March 1, students in the Napa Valley Unified School Districtâs hybrid learning program will have their classroom time increase from two to four half-days per week, the district announced Wednesday. The expansion of in-person teaching is the third phase in NVUSDâs emergence from a district-wide shutdown that began in March 2020 with the arrival of COVID-19.
With local infection rates dipping to their lowest level in two months and a host of in-school safeguards in place since the fall, the time has come to provide more in-person learning time to children whose parents are willing, according to Superintendent Rosanna Mucetti.