The criteria will be infections rate for the region…
The region must be Phase 4 and the infection rate must be below 5%…
If there is a spike above the guideline rate , the school’s will have to close...
Each school district will formulate their own plan and file that with the state …
The state will use early August numbers for authorisations
New York City is NOT in Phase 4…
And has a uptick in in its virus numbers free 20-30 year olds…
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday said the state has developed a formula that will allow schools to reopen this fall in regions that are in phase four and have a coronavirus infection rate of 5% or less on a rolling 14-day average.
“We will make the first decision Aug. 1 – 7 , (because) different regions are in different phases,” Cuomo said. “If the infection rate goes over 9% then we we hit an emergency stop button.”
Cuomo said there also will be state guidelines on how schools can reopen, and those will include continued social-distancing and sanitizing measures. The state Board of Regents also announced Monday that teachers and students will be required to wear masks.
The state’s infection rate remains below 2% in most of the state, and was below 1% in the Capital Region on Sunday.
“You reopen if it is safe to reopen. How do you know if its safe? You look at the data,” Cuomo said. “We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs. … This determination will be made the first week in August….
L.A. schools will remain closed at start of school year amid coronavirus spike
The nation’s second-largest school system will continue with online learning until further notice because of the worsening coronavirus surge, Supt. Austin Beutner has announced. The decision affects the education of half a million children who have been out of their classrooms since mid-March.
As COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket in Los Angeles County, Beutner said the school district could not protect the health and safety of students and some 75,000 employees.
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California’s two largest public school districts said Monday that instruction will be remote-only in the fall, citing concerns that surging coronavirus infections in their areas pose too dire a risk for students and teachers.
The Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts, which together enroll some 825,000 students, are the largest in the country so far to abandon plans for even a partial physical return to classrooms when they reopen in August.
More than a third of California’s coronavirus cases are in Los Angeles County and San Diego County has had 18 community outbreaks over the past week, more than double the state’s acceptable threshold.
“There’s a public health imperative to keep schools from becoming a petri dish,” said Austin Beutner, the school superintendent in Los Angeles….
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