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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco city attorneys on Monday asked a Superior Court judge to require the San Francisco Unified School District to offer in-person learning to all students, in all grades, by the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request is the latest attempt by San Francisco officials to use the legal and political levers at their disposal to speed up the pace of school reopenings in the city, where public school students have been in distance learning since the outset of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing came on the heels of a decision by a judge in San Diego last week to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/2021/mar/15/judge-rules-favor-north-county-parents-suing-over-/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">block state restrictions\u003c/a> on school openings in areas of the state with the highest rates of coronavirus infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is unclear whether the courts in San Francisco will be willing to take the reins of the city's complex and contentious school reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing on Monday concerned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by City Attorney Dennis Herrera against the district in early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is language in California's \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=EDC§ionNum=43509.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020-2021 state budget\u003c/a>, directing schools to \"offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Herrera filed the suit, the district and its teachers union have agreed to bring back preschool and elementary school students in April – but not for five full days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city maintains that declining coronavirus case rates are making it possible to offer in-person learning to all students, as large districts including Los Angeles and San Diego are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we are seeking is simply an order that the district comply with their legal obligation,\" Deputy City Attorney Sara Eisenberg said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what that would mean is to offer in-person instruction to all students, in all grades, to the maximum extent that the health orders allow them to,\" Eisenberg added. \"And we believe that it is appropriate to say that they must do so by the end of April.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Ethan Schulman questioned the idea \"that an individual state court should be trying to micromanage what, as the district points out, is an enormously complicated process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even if I thought it were appropriate,\" Schulman said, \"it seems to me it poses very difficult issues of manageability from a judicial standpoint.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district contends that no legal action is required because they are already making progress on reopening classrooms, as evidenced by their approved reopening plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Big picture, this is moot because the district has already been doing everything that's necessary to meet the language in the statute,\" said SFUSD's attorney, Suzanne Solomon, a lawyer with Liebert Cassidy Whitmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon argued that the reopening decisions involved a great deal of negotiation and discretion — and that they couldn’t simply be imposed by the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a couple of days since the San Francisco Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-preparing-offer-person-learning-some-schools-beginning-april-12\">announced a tentative agreement\u003c/a> with the teachers union to start reopening some schools for in-person learning on April 12 — but teachers and parents still say they don’t know the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Quelx lives in the Mission District and has eight children. Four of them are in elementary school. On Saturday, she wasn’t aware that some schools would reopen and that SFUSD had presented a timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like for someone to let me know, for someone to tell me or my kids because I had no idea,” she said. Quelx doesn't use a computer or speak English so she has a hard time keeping up to date with every school development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maureen Sullivan, teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School\"]'How will we be teaching distance learning students as well as in-person learning students at the same time?'[/pullquote]While the \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> announced on Friday they’ve reached an agreement that outlines how hybrid learning will work, some teachers still don’t have the details, said Maureen Sullivan, a bilingual teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How will we be teaching distance learning students as well as in-person learning students at the same time?” Sullivan asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF plans to hold a meeting on Monday to give teachers more information. The union expects to roll out in-person learning in phases and is initially focusing on students in prekindergarten to second grade. The agreement still needs to be approved by union membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a lot of hard work and a lot of time and compromise and back-and-forth,” said UESF President Susan Solomon. “The focus is on pre-K to second grade first and then expanding to fifth grade and then all students in special education programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote on the tentative agreement this week. It allows students to remain with the teacher they had for remote learning, and class sizes will continue to be 22 students in the primary grades. The deal also requires that face masks, hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment be available to all educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg 1208w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the SFUSD presentation 'Return to In-Person Learning Update,' published on Feb. 9, 2021, which shows what a typical classroom layout could look like in schools that are allowed to reopen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school district also plans to install plexiglass partitions on each teacher’s desk. Additionally, each student will be offered a box with school supplies to avoid sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hasn’t committed to providing in-person learning to students at the middle and high school level before the end of the semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel pretty unlikely,” Solomon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union believes that these protections — in addition to increased ventilation, frequent testing of students and vaccinations for on-site staff — will keep teachers safe, said Solomon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said on Twitter it’s “on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for the District’s youngest students starting on April 12, 2021.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are pleased to let you know that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFUSD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SFUSD\u003c/a> is on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for our youngest students starting on April 12, 2021. Additional students will be offered in-person options before the end of April.\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\">https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/TVMknb4XGL\">pic.twitter.com/TVMknb4XGL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SF public schools (@SFUnified) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1368065384650309632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On its website, the district stated not all elementary schools will open. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/august-2020-fall-semester-learning-plans/phase-2-hybrid-model/phase-2a-small-cohortgroup-return/wave-1-schools\">six elementary schools are currently ready\u003c/a> to welcome back students: Alvarado, Cobb, Glen Park, Lawton, Muir and Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district is allowing families to choose whether to send their children back to their classrooms or continue with distance learning. They plan to offer every eligible student up to five days of in-person instruction per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unclear Daily Logistics\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the union, teachers at the selected schools will have two weeks to prepare their classrooms and lesson plans before they’re asked to return. Sullivan, the teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School, is relieved the union has reached a deal with the district, but still has a lot of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still don’t have a clear understanding of what recess will be like and how lunchtime will work. And what the day-to-day schedule looks like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='education']Sullivan has two children — ages 9 and 13 — and her partner works as a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital. She wants the union and the district to explain what resources the agreement provides for teachers who have children that are still learning remotely. One solution she’d like is for the district to open its small in-person learning hubs to the children of teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel comfortable leaving [my daughter] at home by herself all day,” Sullivan said. “I’d like to know what the plan is and if educators will have the chance to get their kids into learning hubs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan's school, Dolores Huerta Elementary, is on the border of Noe Valley and Bernal Heights. SFUSD has assigned it to reopen in the next wave of in-person learning. No official date has been given as to when that will begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 parents, teachers and community members from Dolores Huerta Elementary \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkF6GLVsoCCU_LEXv0FWb7owPIopJmuXn2GePcJtc_0/edit?fbclid=IwAR2xP9ExZKxn9ydZadaxbdjXICCbcytCbItT4zM5gVASLzppPim7SVmU2aI\">signed a letter\u003c/a> addressed to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors asking that officials provide clearer information on issues like access to public transportation for parents when the school opens up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Sense of Urgency\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Parents like Quelx, who lives in the Mission, say the school district hasn’t done a good job communicating with parents who don’t speak English or don't have easy access to the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Quelx fears that schools may be reopening too quickly, she believes that the best place for her kids to learn is inside a classroom. She says it's been difficult for her them to participate in online learning at the same time. There are bandwidth issues, and also the noise. Her children wear headphones during their lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11863208\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47516_GettyImages-1229643858-qut-1020x571.jpg\"]And while she is trying to support them, Quelx says she can’t keep up with the various challenges, which range from the Wi-Fi dropping out, to keeping on top of her kids’ schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re still little, so it’s been hard for me,” she explained. “I really want my kids to go back to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quelx is worried about their health. A few months ago, she and some of her children got very sick with COVID-19. She doesn’t want to go through that again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quelx said her decision will be based on getting information about the protections the school district committed to putting in place. 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The agreement still needs to be approved by union membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a lot of hard work and a lot of time and compromise and back-and-forth,” said UESF President Susan Solomon. “The focus is on pre-K to second grade first and then expanding to fifth grade and then all students in special education programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are expected to vote on the tentative agreement this week. It allows students to remain with the teacher they had for remote learning, and class sizes will continue to be 22 students in the primary grades. The deal also requires that face masks, hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment be available to all educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1208px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11863674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout.jpg 1208w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/SFUSD-slide-layout-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1208px) 100vw, 1208px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from the SFUSD presentation 'Return to In-Person Learning Update,' published on Feb. 9, 2021, which shows what a typical classroom layout could look like in schools that are allowed to reopen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFUSD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school district also plans to install plexiglass partitions on each teacher’s desk. Additionally, each student will be offered a box with school supplies to avoid sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union hasn’t committed to providing in-person learning to students at the middle and high school level before the end of the semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel pretty unlikely,” Solomon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union believes that these protections — in addition to increased ventilation, frequent testing of students and vaccinations for on-site staff — will keep teachers safe, said Solomon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD said on Twitter it’s “on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for the District’s youngest students starting on April 12, 2021.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are pleased to let you know that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFUSD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SFUSD\u003c/a> is on track to offer in-person learning options at a select number of schools for our youngest students starting on April 12, 2021. Additional students will be offered in-person options before the end of April.\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\">https://t.co/J8c56yGP0R\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/TVMknb4XGL\">pic.twitter.com/TVMknb4XGL\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— SF public schools (@SFUnified) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1368065384650309632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On its website, the district stated not all elementary schools will open. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/august-2020-fall-semester-learning-plans/phase-2-hybrid-model/phase-2a-small-cohortgroup-return/wave-1-schools\">six elementary schools are currently ready\u003c/a> to welcome back students: Alvarado, Cobb, Glen Park, Lawton, Muir and Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district is allowing families to choose whether to send their children back to their classrooms or continue with distance learning. They plan to offer every eligible student up to five days of in-person instruction per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Unclear Daily Logistics\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the union, teachers at the selected schools will have two weeks to prepare their classrooms and lesson plans before they’re asked to return. Sullivan, the teacher-librarian at Dolores Huerta Elementary School, is relieved the union has reached a deal with the district, but still has a lot of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still don’t have a clear understanding of what recess will be like and how lunchtime will work. And what the day-to-day schedule looks like,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Fremont Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent CJ Cammack presented the results of a self-selecting survey of parents, asking their feelings about continuing remote learning across the district’s 42 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey results should have provided a level of comfort for the elected board to stay the course: 63% of the nearly 11,000 parents who responded said they preferred to have their child remain in distance learning for the rest of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the public comment period began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly an hour, parents called in to levy their frustrations at the board, urging its members to produce a plan to reopen classrooms in the Bay Area’s third largest school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 36% of the district? Are they not important?” asked Irene Shen, a district parent. “Not every parent will come here to speak but everyone will vote with their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The status of public schools in California has remained largely static in the year since the pandemic began: Most \u003ca href=\"https://maps.schools.covid19.ca.gov/public.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remain shuttered, \u003c/a>and large Bay Area districts like San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont have been in distance learning throughout the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the political landscape is shifting rapidly as local and state officials attempt to chart the course for a potential return to class. Finding a consensus among parents on such an emotionally charged issue is proving impossible, with surveys and polling providing limited guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, increasingly organized groups of parents advocating for an immediate return to class are emerging as a potent political counterweight to teachers unions that have so far resisted those calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">until members are vaccinated\u003c/a>. In San Francisco and the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, parent groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-launched-to-recall-three-S-F-school-board-15968429.php\">have vowed to derail the political careers of board members\u003c/a> standing in the way of reopening. [aside postID=\"news_11860986\" label=\"More on the state legislature and schools\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only sure thing in the debate over reopening schools, Cammack said, is that, “Any return to on-campus learning will not be fast enough for some, and far too soon for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Politically Fragile’ Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That’s no solace to policymakers who prefer to operate with more well-defined levels of public opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts looking for guidance from the state Legislature have so far found gridlock, as Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860986/democratic-state-legislators-split-with-newsom-on-school-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have yet to agree\u003c/a> on a plan to return students to class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal unveiled last week by Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly would send billions of dollars to local districts to bring back grades K-6 by April 15 — if coronavirus case rates drop below 7 cases per 100,000 residents (the state’s “red” tier) and teachers are offered vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued that guidance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> makes it clear that schools can reopen immediately with the proper mitigation measures, and that teacher vaccinations are not a necessary prerequisite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing the pressure of a potential recall election, Newsom has grown bolder in his pronouncements that union intransigence could leave students out of classrooms until the fall. Labor leaders, who heavily supported Newsom in his 2018 run for governor, have responded by \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/tKm7Iry5brA?t=999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">singling him out for criticism\u003c/a> and launching their own ad campaign to promote a reopening strategy that includes vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s an easy solution to any of this,” said former state Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who chaired the Assembly Education Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GuyMarzorati/status/1364288846213443587\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Padma Gopalakrishnan, Fremont parent\"]“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Monday hearing on a reopening bill, legislators representing predominately Black and Latino communities shared stories of residents for whom a reopening of schools would come with a new set of anxieties and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a [former] teacher, and all my friends are teachers, they’re ready to go back to the classroom, they know the importance of that,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens. “But they are afraid when they see the rates of infection in Bell Gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, California’s state government has largely kicked school reopening decisions to the local level. Both Newsom and legislative Democrats have language in their latest proposals that would require a collective bargaining agreement between local districts and unions on reopening safety protocols — essentially ensuring that political battle over reopening will play out one by one in the hundreds of districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, piecing together a consensus from surveys, interest group lobbying and parental outrage — while identifying which voices are missing from the conversation — has been just as difficult, particularly for elected board members promising to keep equity at the center of the reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Board of Education President Gabriela López speaking during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, is facing a recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/2020FallFamilySurvey/Intro?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fall 2020 survey found\u003c/a> 41% of parents planned to send their child back to school if classrooms reopened, compared to 27% who said they would not, and 31% who were “unsure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Black parents, the split was 35% to 33% against returning, with Latino parents responding with a similar 36% to 32% divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> parents found that 57% of respondents planned to return their children to in-person learning — with wide gaps between white (80%), Black (57%), Latino (61%) and Asian (36%) respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Equity Emerges as a Fault Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of reopening classrooms have rallied around the call of equity, with some trumpeting the disproportionate effects of distance learning that have left low-income, Black and Latino children \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less access to live instruction and internet-connected\u003c/a> learning. But there is no agreed-upon definition of equity, and it’s not always members of the Black and Latino communities making those calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap,” said Padma Gopalakrishnan, a parent who weighed in at the Fremont Unified board meeting. “The survey did not identify these students. We need to help them … so we need to open our schools.”[aside postID=\"news_11858457\" label=\"More on equity in school reopening\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says “Please Reopen Our Schools” at a park across from Clarendon Elementary School in San Francisco on Feb. 18, 2021, where students and parents rallied in support of reopening schools. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in 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camera-friendly protests in front of shuttered schools, as just the latest example of wealthy constituents finding a way to elevate their own concerns — not those of the broader community.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joan Buchanan, former state assemblywoman\"]“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks who are the most persistent in communicating with [elected] offices are almost always the more affluent, connected people in the district,” said Jim Stearns, a San Francisco political consultant, who is currently advising the United Educators of San Francisco teachers union. “They almost always have an outsized voice in issues like this, and I do think that’s the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question for local and state politicians is how high the heat from the reopening debate will rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the 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Maybe the local recall campaigns will turn more nakedly partisan, potentially turning off liberals who support teachers unions and don’t have an immediate stake in the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential for local school issues to escalate politically should not be underestimated. In the early 1970s, San Francisco lawyer Quentin Kopp launched a decades-long political career with his opposition to the city’s school desegregation plan — channeling the anger that white and Chinese parents held towards busing into a successful run for supervisor in 1971. Kopp’s career would take him to the state senate and a superior court judgeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, parent activist Bobbi Fiedler organized tens of thousands of parents in the San Fernando Valley against desegregation busing, and, in 1977, she toppled the president of the Los Angeles school board. Three years later, Fiedler was in Congress, after riding the same issue to knock off 10-term U.S. Rep. 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And many California families may already be “voting with their feet” and leaving public schools — although the data on the state’s record pandemic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/01/california-schools-record-enrollment-drop/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enrollment drop is still noisy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the movement’s breakout potential might be limited by time and the region’s liberal leanings, Agnos says parent groups are just in their “embryonic stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is no balanced response from the school district in general and the school board in particular, I think this movement could grow into a major force,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Buchanan said education policy has always been a politically fragile issue. During her days in the state Legislature, she said, few lawmakers showed interest in sitting on education committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one wanted to serve on the Education Committee unless that was your passion, because it had more bills than any other committee and the meetings were longer,” Buchanan remembered. “And the reason they were longer is because it’s a very emotional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re dealing with people’s children, that’s their most precious gift and they care about them and they want to do what’s best for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finding a statewide consensus among parents about what is best for kids has been futile. And public polling has offered lawmakers little counsel, with conflicting results that indicate support for in-person learning but little agreement on what a safe return to it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is difficult to identify the signal in the noise of all of the polling data,” said Martin West, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Exactly what question you pose to parents matters a huge deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Data Says, and Doesn’t\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Education Next, a research journal run by West, \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/pandemic-parent-survey-finds-perverse-pattern-students-more-likely-to-be-attending-school-in-person-where-covid-is-spreading-more-rapidly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed parents around the country\u003c/a> toward the end of 2020 and found that parents of 60% of students believe their kids are learning less during the pandemic. But parents of 74% of students still expressed satisfaction with the instruction and activities provided at their child’s school, and views of teachers unions remained at pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teachers-unions-schools-reopen-covid_n_60218ee6c5b6173dd2f89ceb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February poll from HuffPost/YouGov\u003c/a> found Americans strongly support the bargaining position of teachers unions, but just 41% believe the risk of reopening schools outweighs the consequence of keeping them closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without hard data on their constituent’s views, state lawmakers, including Newsom, have drawn on their own experiences as parents to empathize with public frustration.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Monday hearing on a reopening bill, legislators representing predominately Black and Latino communities shared stories of residents for whom a reopening of schools would come with a new set of anxieties and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a [former] teacher, and all my friends are teachers, they’re ready to go back to the classroom, they know the importance of that,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens. “But they are afraid when they see the rates of infection in Bell Gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, California’s state government has largely kicked school reopening decisions to the local level. Both Newsom and legislative Democrats have language in their latest proposals that would require a collective bargaining agreement between local districts and unions on reopening safety protocols — essentially ensuring that political battle over reopening will play out one by one in the hundreds of districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the local level, piecing together a consensus from surveys, interest group lobbying and parental outrage — while identifying which voices are missing from the conversation — has been just as difficult, particularly for elected board members promising to keep equity at the center of the reopening debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47103_033_SanFrancisco_LowellBSURally_02052021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Board of Education President Gabriela López speaking during a rally at Lowell High School on Feb. 5, 2021, is facing a recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/views/2020FallFamilySurvey/Intro?%3Aembed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fall 2020 survey found\u003c/a> 41% of parents planned to send their child back to school if classrooms reopened, compared to 27% who said they would not, and 31% who were “unsure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But among Black parents, the split was 35% to 33% against returning, with Latino parents responding with a similar 36% to 32% divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey of \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> parents found that 57% of respondents planned to return their children to in-person learning — with wide gaps between white (80%), Black (57%), Latino (61%) and Asian (36%) respondents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Equity Emerges as a Fault Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of reopening classrooms have rallied around the call of equity, with some trumpeting the disproportionate effects of distance learning that have left low-income, Black and Latino children \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/who-is-losing-ground-with-distance-learning-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less access to live instruction and internet-connected\u003c/a> learning. But there is no agreed-upon definition of equity, and it’s not always members of the Black and Latino communities making those calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Equity requires meeting the needs of the most marginalized students. Distanced learning has widened the opportunity and performance gap,” said Padma Gopalakrishnan, a parent who weighed in at the Fremont Unified board meeting. “The survey did not identify these students. We need to help them … so we need to open our schools.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Fong, a former state assemblyman who until recently led the faculty union at the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District, said he wouldn’t give added weight to vocal parents “just because they’re squeaking louder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for the school board members right now because they’re the ones that are on the front lines of this, getting the heat from the community,” Fong added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the white-hot light of the school reopening debate has exposed the political naivete of many officials serving on local school boards — positions long considered a first step toward higher office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, the entire Oakley Union Elementary School District Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-board-resigns-over-embarrassing-hot-mic-moment-during-public-meeting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned last week\u003c/a> after making derogatory comments on a live video stream about parents who had pushed to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, board members made national headlines for embarking on a quixotic mission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates\">to rename dozens of (still empty) public schools\u003c/a>, in some cases relying on flawed research to render judgment on whether a name was connected to enslavement, oppression or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11861638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47274_021_SanFrancisco_ClarendonSchoolReopeningRally_02182021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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\u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, groups of irate parents have progressed from survey responses and public comment periods to a more menacing form of political feedback: a vow to recall or challenge school board members who don’t reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political action committee called The Campaign for Better Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11861151/new-pac-targets-san-francisco-school-board-over-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched in San Francisco last week\u003c/a>, backed by parents with the goal of shaking up a board that they believe has been incompetent and recalcitrant, with little to show for months of discussion and millions in federal and state relief dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee may pursue a direct recall of sitting board members, challenge them in future elections or work to change how members are selected — either by breaking the board into districts or handing appointment power to the mayor, said Seeyew Mo, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole point of my organization is to give voices to those who are not represented, so we welcome everyone and we will continue to work to make sure that diverse voices are represented,” Mo said. “And I don’t think there is any commissioner on the board or any of the organizations out there that can claim that they represent everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short of actually recalling commissioners, supporters of the San Francisco campaign don’t have to look far for examples of payoff: The San Ramon Valley Unified School District welcomed back elementary school students in early February, weeks after three board members were targeted with a recall campaign in response to their decision to postpone an earlier reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of “Parent Power” in San Ramon \u003ca 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[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tia Ghose, San Francisco parent\"]'The schools needed to be reopened yesterday.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We absolutely have a comprehensive plan,\" he said at a press conference after the court action was announced. \"And this plan has specific steps around health and safety guidelines, and what our processes would be and what in-person learning would look like for our ... student populations to return as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said the city is working with the health department to approve school sites for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/services/health-wellness/covid-19-coronavirus-resources-families-students/faqs/inperson-hybrid-learning-plans-faqs/reopening-school-buildings\">reopening\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the district nor the city can unilaterally reopen schools, even with health department approval. The teachers union must also agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Susan Solomon, president of \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the district and the union had been \"getting closer to an agreement\" on reopening, she said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unfortunate there is the distraction of this lawsuit,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed, who has been sharply critical of SFUSD for not bringing back students after nearly a year of educating them through distance learning, said the city had no choice but to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Families right now aren't able to plan for their futures, they can't decide whether to accept a job offer because they don't know when they're going to be able to once again have their kids returned to the classroom,\" she said at the press conference Wednesday. \"This is paralyzing our city and our residents, and I know that this is a drastic step, but I feel we are out of options at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What's the Holdup?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of physically returning students and teachers to schools say there is little justification for further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Herrera ticked off reasons for SFUSD to invite its 54,000 students out from behind their home computers and back into schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited assessments by city and state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that schools can safely reopen, and he held up in-person learning currently taking place at 113 private and parochial schools in the city as something that should be possible for public schools as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person school, and less than five cases of in-school transmission have been reported,\" Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data showing a widening achievement gap in the student population was also driving the city's decision to act, he stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Black, Latino and other students of color in San Francisco, as well as those from low- income families, have lost significant academic ground compared with wealthier and white students during the pandemic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD's\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-approves-resolution-safe-return-person-learning\"> Return to School Safely\u003c/a> plan originally envisioned a phased timeline for kids to come back, with the first wave of campuses reopening Jan. 25. But the plan was put on hold because, the district said, the union had made “significant new requests” that went beyond the safety protocols set by the city's Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101881772/bay-area-parents-students-eager-to-know-when-schools-will-reopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearance\u003c/a> on KQED's \"Forum\" radio program last week, Solomon, from the teachers union, defended that position, citing issues of equity.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pecolia Manigo, Oakland parent\"]'It's not in their families, is not in their neighborhood ... It's an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It's not even seen as a potential threat ... We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\"[W]e know that in San Francisco as well as in surrounding counties, the families and communities who are hardest hit by COVID — namely Black and brown communities — are seeing much higher rates [than] the rest of the neighborhoods and communities,\" Solomon said. \"And we are emphasizing a lower community spread [before returning to schools] so that we can mitigate the effects of people being together who are in multigenerational households, who are experiencing ... higher rates of COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Ramos, a teacher-librarian at Sanchez Elementary School who has a 7-year-old daughter in a San Francisco school, says pointing to private school reopenings as a reason for public schools to follow suit is illogical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students from private schools are not coming from communities where [coronavirus] spread is so high,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the pandemic has dragged on, with little sign that children will see the inside of a classroom this school year, many parents have reached the end of their tether. The group Open Schools California has united parents from San Diego to Davis in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857557/parents-unite-from-all-over-california-to-press-for-schools-reopening-unions-are-pushing-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempt to pressure stakeholders\u003c/a> who have the power to take action to pull the trigger on reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After 11 months of school closures and a lack of political will from some state and local leaders to do what's best for school children, it is encouraging to see the City of San Francisco acknowledge the science and stand up for what's right and what we've known all along,\" said Megan Bacigalupi, an organizer with the group, in a statement responding to the lawsuit. \"That schools can be reopened safely for students and teachers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tia Ghose, a journalist who lives in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, says her two children have struggled with online learning. She and her husband recently pulled their third-grader out of public school and are now paying for in-person learning at a private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The schools needed to be reopened yesterday,\" Ghose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848013/for-some-kids-distance-learning-is-rough-for-others-its-excruciating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not alone\u003c/a> among Bay Area parents in reporting their kids struggling with going to school only online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">\"We see high levels of anxiety,” Saun-Toy Trotter, a psychotherapist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, told KQED in November. “High levels of depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p7\">Her school-based clinic recorded more youth suicide attempts in the first four weeks of the pandemic than it did in the entire previous year, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every parent agrees that a return to in-person instruction is a no-brainer. On Forum, Solomon pointed to an SFUSD survey that found relatively more Black and brown parents reporting they don't feel safe sending their kids back into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dynamic is playing out in other communities with high coronavirus transmission rates. Pecolia Manigo, a parent of three OUSD students and executive director of the Bay Area Parent Action Leadership Network, told KQED recently that many parents who are pushing for schools to reopen have not felt the effect of the pandemic the way that communities of color have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not in their families, is not in their neighborhood,\" said Manigo, who is Black. \"It's an amorphous kind of idea and a threat. It's not even seen as a potential threat ... We are hearing families testing positive every week. And so it just feels different for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael Moreno, a \"third-generation-deep\" Mission District native with a 5-year-old daughter attending elementary school in the neighborhood, said that schools need to bring kids back, \"but they need to open when it’s safe for our students, our teachers and our community members. And that means vaccines for teachers and the support staff who make up the school community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out different plans for students of diverse needs, including impoverished students and those with disabilities, can be \"extremely resource-consuming,\" said Megan Caluza, a behavior analyst for SFUSD. One of the handful of educators on the district's working group on reopening, she says resumption of in-person learning requires more planning than people might realize.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"City Attorney Dennis Herrera\"]'Almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person school, and less than five cases of in-school transmission have been reported.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public health guidelines for reopening, she said, \"aren't focused on equity, they're focused on broad public health understanding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Cacophany of Opinions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, while there are health disparities surrounding COVID-19 between different racial and economic groups, unequal responses to remote learning exist as well. As Herrera alluded to Wednesday, San Francisco public schools during the pandemic have experienced a higher rate of absenteeism and learning loss among Black, Latino, Asian and low-income students compared to those who are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, during a Board of Supervisors' debate, outgoing Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer became irate over the city's lack of progress in bringing students back into classrooms, calling it racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[F]or those of you who are currently public school parents, it is great that you have internet access. It is great that you have a home for your children, and a place for them to do online learning and distance learning,\" Fewer shouted. \"But man, you talk to some of these parents, and you talk to some of these children, and you go to those community learning hubs, it would break your heart. This is a disservice. This is racist, and this is a disservice. It is one thing to say 'Black lives matter,' it's another thing to be saying 'while they're alive.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this cacophony of opinions comes the lawsuit by the city. Will it succeed? Bill Koski, a professor of law and education at Stanford Law School, says courts are often hesitant to intervene on matters of school policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, the city's petition may represent uncharted territory.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rafael Moreno, SF Mission District parent\"]'They need to open when it’s safe for our students, our teachers and our community members. And that means vaccines for teachers and the support staff who make up the school community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my knowledge, this is a first, where a city has taken the step of filing a lawsuit against the local public schools in order to have them reopen during the pandemic,\" Koski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Solomon, from the teachers union, was asked if she thought the city and district were close enough in negotiations to see a return to in-person learning this year, she said, \"I think we can get an agreement, yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's unclear how the lawsuit will affect those talks. (\u003cem>Update Feb. 6\u003c/em>: On Friday, school unions announced a proposal that would restart in-person classes when San Francisco is categorized under the red tier of the state's COVID-19 risk-assessment system, provided vaccines are made available to all staff who work in district buildings, among other additional safety measures. If vaccines are not available, the unions would return once the city enters the orange tier, one level up from red in terms of indicating transmission risk. San Francisco is currently in the purple tier, the level designating the most risk.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the city's aggressive action has generated some bitterness among teachers. \"I already have low pay in what is one of the most expensive cities in the world,\" said Max Raynard, who teaches at Clarendon Elementary School. He said the lawsuit made him think San Francisco leadership doesn't support teachers. \"My raise each year is lower than the rate of inflation, which means I'm getting a pay cut each year. So I am doing this out of love of teaching and the students. And now people want to risk my life and the life of my loved ones?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos, the teacher at Sanchez Elementary who supports waiting to reopen, acknowledges her daughter has had trouble adapting to online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It hasn't been easy for us to keep her focused on what her teacher is asking us to do,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But little moments of wonder still occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's been inspired by the way she's learning from her teachers and recording her own tutorials on the computer,\" Ramos said. She recalls her daughter exclaiming, \"'Here's how to make a book, everybody!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All involved have one thing in common, at least. They wish for moments like that for every student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Katie Orr, Julia McEvoy and Lesley McClurg contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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