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Visalia Schools Leader Falsely Cites Tuberculosis Deaths for Anti-Mask Stance

[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta Visalia Unified School Board President John Crabtree questioned the benefit of face masks to combat COVID-19 on Tuesday, claiming they don't prevent "hundreds of thousands" of annual deaths from tuberculosis. “There are hundreds of thousands of people who die from tuberculosis every year, and yet we...

What We Know So Far About School Reopenings in California

As more California public schools get set to reopen their campuses to students and teachers with a rhythm unseen in previous months, the pool of schools that have reopened so far have largely avoided triggering coronavirus outbreaks. Most of the school districts in the state that have physically reopened have implemented...

Behind the ‘Wild West’ of School Reopenings

By Ricardo Cano and Ana B. Ibarra An academic year in which public education will intersect with public health has created back-to-school shopping lists unlike any other for California’s schools as they attempt to transition toward in-person instruction once they have the state’s blessing. Bakersfield’s Panama-Buena Vista Union School District...

Dozens of California Elementary Schools Allowed to Reopen

Dozens of California elementary schools have been approved to reopen with in-person instruction under special waivers approved by health officials in counties that were placed on a state monitoring list because of high numbers of coronavirus infections. State health authorities haven't said how many have been approved statewide. But data...

Walters: School Reformers Win Major Skirmish

The huge Los Angeles Unified School District is ground zero in California’s perpetual political war over educating millions of children on the short end of the state’s chronic “achievement gap.” LA Unified, the nation’s second largest school system, has nearly 10% of the state’s 6 million public school students, the...

California Issues Guidelines for School Reopening Waivers

LOS ANGELES — California health officials released guidelines Monday for elementary schools to seek waivers that would allow them to offer classroom instruction but recommended that local health officials not even consider that option in counties with the highest rates of coronavirus infection. The state Department of Public Health released...

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