COVID closes three TUSD campuses Schools return to distance learning amid staff outbreaks While Turlock Unified School District elementary students just recently returned to in-class instruction like at Brown School with 4th grade teacher Chelsea Alton as pictured above, three other elementary campuses (Julien, Cunningham and Crowell) have had to send students home through Dec. 18 due to staff testing positive for COVID-19 (Photo contributed).
Three Turlock Unified School District elementary campuses have returned to distance learning this month following COVID-19 outbreaks among staff.
Similar situations at Crowell, Cunningham and Julien elementary schools led TUSD to announce each school will return to distance learning through Dec. 18. According to Chief Communication Coordinator Marie Russell, the decision to return to distance learning was not the result of a “trigger” as defined by the California Department o