Government Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators will announce on Monday an agreement to give the school districts $ 2 billion to secondary school students through April 2 through April 2, and focus on California’s youngest children after nearly ‘ a year of distance education.
According to sources close to the governor and the legislature, the negotiations concluded over the weekend, confirming its basic components.
The plan, according to sources, provides financial incentives to school districts that offer personalized education in provinces with less than 25 new daily confirmed coronavirus cases per 100,000 population, a threshold that all California provinces currently meet as the rapid spread of the virus in the winter slows down.
School districts seeking money in provinces in the state’s red level, with seven or fewer cases per 100,000 inhabitants, would be required to extend classroom learning to all elementary school students and at least one grade of middle or high school.
But the proposal, which is expected to vote in both houses of the Legislature this week, does not end the mandate that schools across the state should reopen. Instead, it leaves the final decision to local education officials and, in some areas, subject to agreements between districts and the unions representing school workers.
The agreement is the culmination of weeks of negotiations at the state Capitol and adds current public health guidelines along with proposals for reopening the school introduced by the governor and legislators. For Newsom, it is suggested that students return to campus two months later than he promised in the plan he presented in late December. Legislators objected to the requirement of his original attempt for schools to submit lengthy applications for the money, and deviated from the early details of public health standards in the community.
But the fiercest debate over reopening more school classrooms has focused on vaccinating COVID-19 to educators. Newsom, which initially deviated from new guarantees, conceded last month and this week set aside 10% of the state’s weekly vaccine dosages for teachers and school staff.
Public health officials said Monday that the state is on track to exceed Newsom’s initial estimate of providing at least 75,000 weekly vaccine doses. And district officials at the Los Angeles Unified School announced they would expect enough vaccinations to reopen campuses by April 9 – a week later than the new classroom opening plan.
According to the legislation, the vaccination of teachers and staff is not a condition for a district to return to personal learning, a mandate demanded by the California Teachers Assn.
Trade union leaders also failed to block the pressure on Newsom to reopen schools in the province’s most limited press level in the provinces. Government officials are expected to update the levels on Tuesday. As of last week, all but one of California’s provinces have had fall rates that would allow students in the TC second grade to return to their classrooms.
The plan is based on financial incentives to open more campuses in the spring. School districts in provinces that meet the virus threshold and do not open on April 1 will lose 1% of their share in the $ 2 billion in reopening of funds for each school day that distance education is the only option. Schools that are currently open or planning to reopen before the end of March will be allowed to continue with their respective reopening and still be eligible for funding.