schools reopening

Ad series dubbed “Still a Threat” resemble political-campaign style TV spots and have been launched in cities across California

While parents are ready for schools to reopen, the California Teachers Union has a different message, and released a television ad that says it. NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda reports.

President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April.

At least 17 schools in the Cajon Valley Union School District have had cohort closures because of positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 cases since school started Sept. 8, according to district leaders. Currently, six employees and 12 students within the district are listed as COVID-19 positive, according to the CVUSD dashboard. The cases have impacted 10 schools and the district…

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado breaks down coronavirus case data within the district.

Parents are weighing everything from distance learning to tutors after finding out last week that returning students would not be going back to classrooms this fall, reports NBC 7 education reporter Rory Devine.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on Wednesday with recommendations on how districts should prepare to reopen schools.

The San Diego Unified School District has tapped a team of scientists at UC San Diego for guidance in their mission to reopen campuses and keep students safe once they’re back at school. It is up to each district to come with plans to reopen their schools, and while there are guidelines from public health officials at the federal,...

NBC 7’s Rory Devine shares how the district and the university will work together.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that the White House pressured the CDC into relaxing their guidelines after President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools.”

Three factors could impact the reopening of schools: A rise in cases of the coronavirus, the ability to test for the virus at schools and a lack of federal funding to pay for extra costs to make schools safe, according to a school official.

NBC 7’s Rory Devine takes a look at schools reopening plans amid continuous changes.

At a roundtable with President Trump on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar advocated to reopen schools by citing social distancing, good hygiene and face masks as necessary and sufficient precautions to keep students and teachers healthy.

At a roundtable meetings about reopening schools, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. response to the coronavirus in limiting the number of Americans who have died, saying, “We saved of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives… we’re at [130,000 deaths] and we could be at way over a million right now and I think it could have been...

Starting the academic school year earlier to make up for learning lost amid the coronavirus crisis may be easier for some school districts than others, but the change proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday would still come with daunting changes for all.

Gov. Gavin Newsom raised some eyebrows when he announced class may return to session in July, but it actually coincides with some schools’ schedules in the South Bay.

If Gov. Gavin Newsom does decide to open schools in July, it would be up to local districts to figure out how to make it happen. NBC7 education reporter Rory Devine has reaction to the governor’s announcement.