The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) plans to reopen schools starting April 12, the city’s Education Council announced on Friday.
After being under national scrutiny for months due to the school council’s decision to prioritize the renaming of public schools instead of reopening them, city school officials reached an agreement with the teachers’ unions for children to return to school .
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“We know that students and families are suffering. Whether they are parents / guardians doing their best to support their children or teachers working around the clock to support learning during a pandemic,” said San Francisco school council president Gabriela López, in a tweet on Friday. “We hear and see them, and we remain committed to staying together during this time.”
Lopez received a violent reaction from angry parents who were frustrated by the council’s inability to establish a reopening plan, 10 months after the students were sent home for virtual learning.
In a last-ditch effort to put SFUSD and the Education Council into action, the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit alleging that alleged school officials were violating students’ constitutional rights under California law to attend public schools and discriminating against students based on wealth, since only the more than 110 private schools in the city had reopened for face-to-face education.
After an additional legal battle launched in connection with the school board’s determination to rename 44 schools that it considered racially offensive, the board suspended the controversial plan until the children returned to personal learning.
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“The reopening will be our only focus until our children and youth return to schools,” she said in a statement. demonstration at the end of last month. “We are canceling the renaming of the committee’s meetings for now.”
Only six primary schools are expected to reopen in mid-April, with a maximum class size of 22 students, reported the local news agency NBC.
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Additional schools are expected to open at the end of the month, but only 12 of the city’s 130 schools have been booked in the city’s “wave 1” reopening plan.
The city did not say when it predicts that all of its 57,000 public school students will be able to return to classrooms.