Four Bay Area counties can now resume in-person classes at all public K-6 schools after their rate of new coronavirus cases fell below the state’s threshold to reopen schools.
Public schools that have yet to resume in-person classes in Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties can now do so under the state’s school reopening framework, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday during a briefing on the pandemic.
Prior to the state’s winter stay-at-home order, counties were required to remain out of the state’s most-restrictive purple reopening tier for two weeks to begin reopening schools for in-person classes.
Schools that had opened prior to the stay-at-home order taking effect in the Bay Area on Dec. 11 were allowed to remain open for in-person instruction, but unopened schools were barred from doing so.
With the average daily case rate per 100,000 residents for all four counties now under 25 for at least five consecutive days, the state has permitted each county to reopen all K-6 schools if they choose to do so.
“You’ll remember just a few short weeks ago, the state was knocking on the door of a case rate of 100 per 100,000 per day,” Ghaly said. “So, good news to see a number of counties below 25.”
Schools with grades 7-12 that have already reopened are also allowed to continue providing in-person instruction under the state’s reopening framework for schools.
However, schools with those higher grades that have not yet opened will have to wait for their county to leave the purple tier to do so, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Leaving the purple tier requires a county to record a rate of new cases per 100,000 residents below seven and a coronavirus test positivity rate below 8%. Contra Costa County currently has a 31.4 case rate, and a positivity rate of 7.1%.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has implored state legislators to approve $2 billion to support schools reopening amid the pandemic as the state works to vaccinate wider swaths of its population.
The fate of that funding package and the timeline for how soon teachers can receive vaccinations remain up in the air and could hamper the number of schools that reopen before spring.
Wait a minute. I thought all the bay area counties were working together. We all closed down together. Contra Costa was closed for what was happening in san jose. Just more BS
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Lol it’s like a comedy show your waiting for newscum to wave at you and appreciate you
Keep waiting maybe your great grand children will be rid of him and be allowed to smile and feel freedom
And since when did you believe him and or anything he says or does
Those cities if you think about it are the ones with low self esteem councils and boards
They gave it up early
The hoff for the board of our county is crazy
Newscum is for the 19 year old mind set
Not a hard core self minded Karen with delusions of self grandure and loathing and a middle finger that looks like ET
EITHER WAY newscum hates us because we seem to have brains at least most of us
But the hot
Does Newsom have it out for CC County for some reason? First we were lumped with surrounding counties and closed down because their Covid rates were high. Now they are open but we are not? What is going on here?
CCCP County more like it
Even if the goal posts had not changed, even if we were ‘all-in-this-together’ with the other bay area counties, I believe MDUSD would still NOT open.
I really am not sure where the problem is … the School District or Teacher Union or the teachers. I do not believe it is the majority if of teachers as the ones I know WANT to be back in the classroom.
Man this guy keeps moving the goal post. How come we weren’t allowed open schools when we were under 4 cases per 100,000 and in the orange tier, but are now allowed to be open if under 25 cases per 100,000? Which “science” is he following? I’m betting it’s Science Fiction…
The best fix is “RECALL”
must be because racism is a public health crisis because of our joke leaders like karen mishoff.
impeach these morons
“Gov. Gavin Newsom has implored state legislators to approve $2 billion to support schools reopening amid the pandemic”.
Wow, they are already trying to rewrite history in an attempt to make him look like less of a limp noodle