With Gov. Newsom’s back-to-school plan all but doomed, what might it take to salvage it? Negotiations continue to meet objections of school districts, alternative ideas of the Legislature

Record-Bee ^ | 1-28-2021 | JOHN FENSTERWALD

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Odds are increasingly remote that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to provide financial incentives for districts to reopen schools in February and March will get off the ground. During two hearings on the proposal, legislators repeated districts’ complaints that the initial Feb. 1 deadline to apply was unrealistic and should be pushed back.

“Why is the administration holding to these days when all I am hearing from is districts that they will not be applying?” Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, asked administration officials last week at a Senate hearing.

There’s no indication that the Legislature will act this week to approve the $2 billion the state would offer to districts that meet Newsom’s timeline and conditions. 

“The governor’s reopening plan, combined with the lack of vaccination coordination, has set all school districts back to a weaker position than we were in October,” Palo Alto Unified Superintendent Don Austin said.

Newsom’s plan relies on incentives to reopen schools when Covid rates fall in each county to the upper range of the “purple tier” of the state’s pandemic monitoring system — 25 positive cases per 100,000 county residents. The system is color-coded from yellow to purple, the most restrictive. Currently, many counties, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno and Riverside, have double to triple the rate Newsom outlines in his plan. The California Teachers Association has consistently said that they don’t want to send teachers back in the purple tier, calling it non-negotiable.

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[Navy Patriot]

Bastion of American Patriots: Teachers Unions ...

[MinorityRepublican]

*laughing at Gavin Newsom*

[rktman]

Defund Teachers Unions! 😂

[colorado tanker]

Solution is simple. You don't show up for work you don't get paid.

Problem is the teachers union and other government worker unions now own the Democrat party

[rktman]

Guess who isn’t missing a check. 😒

[blueunicorn6]

The teachers are down in Mexico drinking Margaritas and flirting with the pool boys.

[eyeamok]

FIRE All the Teachers and the Union, open the damn schools unrestricted, give the adults ivermectin weekly.

Hire ANY Teacher that wants to work same pay same benefits NO UNION

[Tennessee Nana]

Stop paying the so called teachers...