ByGodfrey Lee Left: Jean Chan, Nhan Phan. Right from top: Sage Shih Kushner, Mary Jane Burke, Rev. Floyd Thompkins (Photos by Godfrey Lee)
Several hundred people gathered at the Rally to Stop Anti-Asian Hate to protest against the hatred and violence against Asians. They gathered on March 26 next to the Arizmendi Bakery in the San Rafael Courthouse Plaza.
The Asian American Alliance of Marin (AAAM), along with 17 other community organizations, organized and sponsored the rally.
The demonstrators shared a moment of silence to mourn and honor the eight victims, many of Asian heritage, who were slain at the spa massacres in Atlanta, Ga., on March 16. They are Soon Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng.
Part Four of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world.
“I think we’re all wondering what’s going to happen.” That was Contra Costa Jewish Day School parent Liat Egel speaking to J. a year ago. It was March 2020 and her two kids, like all children in the Bay Area, were suddenly faced with shuttered schools and an abrupt switch to online learning.
It was a time of uncertainty as teachers and parents tried to cope with a world nobody had planned for. But contacted by J. one year later, Egel was much cheerier, happy that both of her kids were back in the classroom: CCJDS in Lafayette was one of the many Jewish schools granted a waiver for reopening last fall.
Until January, MacAllister was learning remotely, like every other SFUSD student. There wasn t a lot of communication about when schools would open back up, explained MacAllister. Barely any time I was happy in that time
Kate Larsen: Did you ever feel like you thought about hurting yourself?
MacAllister: To be honest, sometimes, yeah. But I would never do it. He was deteriorating emotionally and socially and the isolation was contributing to that, said MacAllister s mom, Renee Gonsalves. He used to be a happy child, he used to smile at people. There was no smile left, no laughter in the house.
Uncertainty as to whether SFUSD, OUSD will meet April 1 reopening deadline to take advantage of $6.6 billion bill
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) California public schools could tap into $6.6 billion from the Legislature if they return to in-person instruction by April 1, according to a new agreement announced on Monday between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state s legislative leaders. We want schools to safely reopen. Period, full stop. I ve been saying this for months, said Newsom. We believe the data and the science bear that out. We believe what the CDC has been saying, we believe what Dr. Fauci has been saying, and President Biden.
Posted By Ricardo Cano, CALmatters on Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 5:36 AM New state mapping data details California’s school-reopening divide, in which hundreds of school districts mostly smaller and rural or inland are offering in-person instruction to elementary students while many of the state’s largest, urban districts remain indefinitely in remote learning. But the divide between public and private schools is much starker: Eleven months after schools closed for in-person learning, most California private schools appear to offer some form of in-person learning, according to the state’s map data. The maps published Friday by the California Department of Public Health offers the first nearly comprehensive picture not every private or charter school has reported data of exactly where schools are physically open. The state’s maps note whether district, charter and private schools are offering in-person lear