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San Francisco District Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit with a city court arguing that the school district and its leaders, elected and independent from mayor, had not put in place a plan to reopen Complies with California State Rules.
“Not a single San Francisco public school student has set foot in a classroom in 327 days,” he lamented at a press conference.
“Over 54,000 San Francisco school children are suffering. They are being transformed into “Zoom-bies” with the school via the internet. It is enough like that ”, continued the prosecutor.
He is supported in his work by the city’s mayor, London Breed. “This is not the path we wanted to take, but nothing matters more now than being able to get our children back to school,” she said on Twitter.
San Francisco schools have been given permission to reopen since last September, Herrera said in a statement, saying that nearly 90% of schools in neighboring Marin County have already resumed teaching in the presence of students.
In San Francisco itself, 113 private, independent and religious schools – “the overwhelming majority” of them – have reopened and remain open, he adds.
In San Francisco as in Los Angeles and in many major American cities, teachers’ unions are reluctant to return to institutions until they have been vaccinated, despite increasing pressure from the public and authorities.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that schools could reopen as soon as the appropriate health measures were implemented.
“There is more and more data suggesting that schools can reopen safely, and that this reopening does not imply that teachers must be vaccinated beforehand,” said Rochelle Walensky, director of the Fighting Centers. Against Disease (CDC), federal health authority.
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