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Staff Questions Del Norte Unified s Move to Create Entry-Level Safety, IT and Communications Jobs DNUSD logo Local education officials blamed the pandemic when taking job descriptions for entry level positions related to safety, technology and communications to the Del Norte Unified School District Board of Trustees on Thursday. DNUSD Human Resources Director Coleen Parkers said the need for someone to man a help desk hotline for technology or help ensure a livestream is working properly are examples of the district making accelerated changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, though she acknowledged that the technology and safety positions were necessary, Sarah Mitchell, vice president for CSEA Northern 178, which represents the district’s classified employees said special education, custodial and maintenance staff are stretched thin too. ....
Fed Up With Changing Guidelines, Slow Vaccine Distribution, DNUSD Superintendent Calls For Advocacy Campaign Fed up with changing state guidelines, some of which he says are guided by politics instead of medicine, the local school superintendent is calling for a countywide advocacy campaign. In the wake of new California Department of Public Health guidelines mandating students be no fewer than 4 feet from their classmates, Del Norte County Unified School District Jeff Harris said he wanted to urge families to send a letter to the governor and the Legislature describing how response to the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them. “I would love to deliver 28,000 letters to the state capital and say this is what’s (the executive orders) are doing to Del Norte,” Harris said. “They forget we’re here. They don’t give us what we need. They didn’t give us vaccines… We get lip service. But I’d like them to hear from 28,000 people (saying), ‘this is how it’s i ....