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As schools reopen across the city this week and next, grab-and-go meals served at school sites across San Francisco will be shifted to new locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chinatown residents, the nearest available SFUSD-provided grab and go meals will shift to the Tenderloin neighborhood at 225 Eddy St. — a Muni bus ride away. Some families and groups that provide services to them say even this seemingly short extension of a journey is dangerous at a time when racist attacks against Asian communities are on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jun Chang Tan, Chinatown resident whose family relies on SFUSD meals\"]'I’m worried about getting attacked. This risk is greater. So I feel that it’s not desirable.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jun Chang Tan is a custodian who lives with his family in a single room occupancy hotel in Chinatown. His wife lost her job at a salon during the pandemic, and he lost hours at his custodian job. 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More students from those grades will start on April 19, which will also mark the (also staggered) return of third through fifth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trapped inside a three-bedroom apartment with four kids for a year, it does feel like a light at the end of the tunnel,” said San Francisco parent Andy Martone, who spoke to KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old software engineer and his wife live in the Mission District, and their 6-year-old twin daughters are set to return to school this week. Martone remembers when he told his twins the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of them said, ‘I can’t wait to do more math equations!’ I was like, ‘Oh really?’ The other one said, ‘I can’t wait to see my teacher in person,’ ” Martone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, not all the city’s students will find themselves in classrooms this week. 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The city of San Francisco sued the school district to speed up its reopening process, a school commissioner caused community furor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867918/no-one-was-asking-what-we-thought-san-francisco-students-weigh-in-on-school-district-controversies\">over her tweets, which some have called racist\u003c/a>, and the board recently put on hold its controversial decision to rename 44 high schools related to historical figures with pasts ostensibly tied to racism. Nearly all of these tussles prompted acrimony on all sides even as many students’ ability to learn via hours of screen time instruction plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge still facing the district is that not all families yet feel safe or otherwise able to return to in-person learning. 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SRO’s are congregate settings where people living in rooms share kitchens and bathrooms with others on their floors, another worry for those trying to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tara Ramos, SFUSD teacher-librarian\"]’Most of our families live in the Mission neighborhood, and we know that they have been more impacted by COVID.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There won’t be any space for quarantine,” he said in Cantonese, which was translated by KQED. “That’s one room for four of us.” When his kids are home, he feels he can help them stay safe. But they take Muni to get to school, where he fears he has “no control over” who they’d have contact with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some students in school, and some still at home, teachers are finding themselves split in their duties. Andrew Patel is one of those teachers juggling multiple cohorts — in person and online — at Leonard R. 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But cohort A and B students will each spend some time in class, and some time on Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel must also plan to continue the distance learning curriculum for two more students who are in “cohort C,” whose parents have opted to keep them in distance learning the entire time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every teacher feels safe returning yet. SFUSD staffers can request accommodations to work remotely should they belong to a group of increased risk, with a substitute teacher assigned to buttress in-person learning. So far, 584 SFUSD staffers requested accommodations, and 290 have met the criteria for approval, according to SFUSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the district will still need educators present to meet student demand. At a recent Board of Education meeting, SFUSD staff said only 91 new substitute teacher applications have been received, prompting a warning from staff that “current substitute teacher availability does not meet anticipated need.” The district is exploring “additional options” to deploy other staff as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1380626572445577218\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the tweet above, SFUSD seeks new hires to help meet the demand of students. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who are returning, teachers have even another layer of complexity to worry about when returning to in-person learning — their own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Elementary School teacher-librarian Tara Ramos will spend Monday performing an intake of kids at her school, helping to supervise all the new rules and procedures kids and staff must follow for safety, from distancing to hand-washing. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Unified School District’s push to begin reopening some schools next Tuesday is hitting a major roadblock: not enough teachers willing to come back yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A truncated reopening timeline and unanswered questions about the process have prompted a majority of teachers, who were given the choice as part of the reopening deal, to opt out of returning to their classrooms next week, leaving parents in limbo and administrators scrambling to prepare for returning students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Douglas, fifth-grade teacher and union bargaining team member\"]'While we are trying our best to move forward together, there are a lot of logistics that need to be figured out still. So those pain points are very real and we're very aware of that.'[/pullquote]Skyline High School, a half dozen elementary schools and 10 preschools that had been scheduled to reopen next week will now remain closed until mid-April because not enough of their teachers have volunteered to return next week. Thirty other elementary and preschools will reopen on an even more limited basis than originally planned because only a small percentage of teachers have opted in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the district's latest tally, over 30 other schools have enough teachers to reopen as planned. Heather Dodge, whose two kids attend Peralta Elementary School in North Oakland, says she was elated when she first heard a reopening agreement between the district and the teachers union had been reached earlier this month. 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District and union officials said making the return to in-person classes voluntarily for teachers was an effort to practice safety protocols and build trust with staff before more students are allowed to come back April 19, at which point most teachers can no longer opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s challenges are similar to what other districts around the country are facing as they work to get students who have struggled the most with distance learning back inside physical classrooms, notes John Sasaki, a district spokesman. “We expect to face challenges in Oakland under such imperfect conditions,” he said. “We are working to stay one step ahead and communicate with families, but we know that there could be some unanticipated changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, 38% of teachers had volunteered to return, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reasons vary widely as to why many teachers have opted not to return to their classrooms next week. While some aren’t vaccinated yet, many others say the tight turnaround has left them little time to sort out personal logistics like child care. Some teachers have also expressed doubt that the district's agreed-on conditions for a safe and organized return can be met by next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody on either side has said, ‘Here is what your room should look like if it’s ready to go and safe,’ ” said Erin Ronhovde, a third grade teacher and union representative at East Oakland Pride Elementary School. “My room, at least, has not changed at all — nobody's come in to figure out how to open the windows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are trying our best to move forward together, there are a lot of logistics that need to be figured out still,” said Tim Douglas, a fifth grade teacher at International Community School, who’s also on the union bargaining team. With less than a week to go, he says, there are still sites that don't have air filters yet. “So those pain points are very real and we're very aware of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]So far, about 50 school sites have had safety inspections by district and union representatives, with another 12 expected by the end of the day, according to Preston Thomas, the district's chief services officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we find out those school sites that might not have enough air purifiers in the classrooms, we’re dropping them off in those spaces,” he said. “We are absolutely confident that we’re going to be able to deliver all the materials to the classrooms to make sure teachers are safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials say the inspections will give them a chance to hold the district accountable in meeting the agreed-on safety standards and will also help build trust and buy-in among teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those schools, if they're not safe based on the criteria that we've agreed to, they can't open,” Douglas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for teachers like Ronhovde, facilities aren’t the only problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2.jpeg 2016w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/OUSD2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bathrooms at Garfield Elementary School in preparation for students to begin returning next week. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have no idea what our day is going to look like as teachers,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hybrid learning schedules still aren’t set and may vary from school to school, depending on how many students choose to return, with the expectation that elementary school instructors will lead a distance learning class for all students in the morning and then teach some students in person in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no clarity around what we're supposed to be doing with them during that time [in the afternoon] and how to keep that equitable so parents don't feel pressured to send their kids back to school,” Ronhovde said. “I'm trying to bring clarity to the people I'm representing at my site and there's none to bring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronhovde did not support the reopening agreement because she said she wanted more detail. “I am vaccinated. 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But as of Wednesday, she still lacked clarity on what her schedule would look like when she returns next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School administrators throughout the district are also scrambling to work out what to do for students who show up next week. On Tuesday night, the principal of Peralta Elementary School told parents she was requesting 10 substitutes to fill in because no teachers were volunteering to come back. The following day she said the school would not reopen for kindergarten through second grade students until April 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear how many students will opt to return in person next week. There are about \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/Enrollment/Snapshot?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Arender=false#7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10,000 kindergarten through second grade students\u003c/a> in the district, and thousands of special needs students, English learners, unhoused students, foster youth and other at-risk students across all grades who could also be eligible to return next week. But in a survey released March 11, only about half of families in the district said they wanted the option to send their kids back to in-person classes this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a heavy monetary incentive for this rush to happen,” said Douglas from the union bargaining team, referring to the $2 billion pot the state plans to distribute to incentivize reopening. For every day after April 1 that a district is not meeting state reopening expectations it stands to lose a portion of the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district denies that the reopening schedule is related to the state funding incentive, Douglas and other union officials say they have felt pressure from officials. “We pushed back at the table that we need a bigger timeline, but OUSD is feeling the pressure from the state. They want to receive those funds,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD has faced painful budget cuts in recent years, so it’s understandably hard for leaders to walk away from extra funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t want to leave money on the table,” said OUSD Board President Shanthi Gonzales in a text message, though she also emphasized that the voluntary return period for teachers is vital in helping to build trust around larger upcoming reopening plans. “We wanted to have the chance to make adjustments before the majority of kids are back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ever-changing dynamic has left Peralta Elementary parent Heather Dodge feeling disillusioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The political game that's playing out is making it so stressful for families and so stressful for schools that I fear that it is going to break up public education as we know it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated Thursday evening with new information released by OUSD regarding schools' reopening status.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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