Schools officials today as coronavirus cases continue to climb at home and beyond here are the latest numbers tonight, globally there are now more than 930,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and over 46,000 people have died. The United States leads the world in the number of cases with over 213,4700 people in our country have died in california. There are more than 9,000 cases and almost 200 people have died. This according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker map. The ongoing outbreak is forcing state education officials to prepare kids across california to Distance Learning for the rest of the school year. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how google is helping students finish out the hool year from home. The coronavirus will likely keep california schools shuttered for the rest of the school year state leaders announced wednesday Officials Say districts across the state have either already or will be launching formal Distance Learning plans screen that is not out for
Joining us at 10, im ken way and im pam moore. The decision is what many parents and students had read assumed was going to happen, but the governor does stress this does not mean the end of the school year. We are preparing today to et our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. And other mechanisms to ke sure that were educatingour kids but not doing so physically on school sites. State superintendent Tony Thurmond held a News Conference today via zoom the same platform that many students have now been using to learn through virtually kron fours noelle bellow listen in on that News Conference and she joins us now live from the newsroom was more details noel on the instruction thats going to be given out. Thats right while more specific guidance on distancelearning was being posted tonight for district leaders, the information given during the press conference still left some questions to b
Education leaders are preparing children across the state to distance learned for the rest of the school year. The state superintendent for public instruction Tony Thurmond is hoping the Distance Learning will accelerate everyones education. He unveiled specific guidelines on distancelearning for district leaders. California is also providing additional webinars and resource teachers as well. Will be providing a women are that is focus on how to provide special education through Distance Learning. I like to thank all those who are helping to put it together our special education workforce, california teachers association, the staff of the California Department of education in the state board of education for coming forward to help us answer a question is not been answered in this way before how do we deliver special education through Distance Learning more than 5,000 people have signed up mostly educators to hear about best practices about lesson plans about modules for how we deliver
Reporter there is a lot happening. This is any vacant evacuation area. Where people can take their horses and livestock. The Sonoma County fairgrounds is a staging area. We see fire engines. And water tenders. Also one of the vehicles and personnel showing up for another long day on the fire lines. About 2000 people remain evacuated. Evacuation orders under effect to fight rumors that have been lifted these are mandatory evacuations in the geyserville area. Some worried residents had to pass up their cars there are hundreds more the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building as well. Horses and livestock can be brought here to the fairgrounds. Evacuated tell ktvu back at the flames creeping towards the neighborhood and some did not match time to grab belongings. We walked out on the deck, and from that we had a Vantage Point to the hillside. It was completely ablaze. Like the came through lights and sirens, and blowhards saying, mandatory now. Firefighters are still trying to extinguish the
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