When Sacramento health officials gave schools the green light to re-open for in-person instruction on Oct. 13, administrators with the county’s 13 school districts went into a planning frenzy. Twin Rivers Unified School District Superintendent Steve Martinez was one of them.
“Boy, this is one of the few times since I’ve been at Twin Rivers that I haven’t been able to identify the right path that’s going to satisfy the majority of people,” Martinez said to the district’s board during a special Oct. 20 meeting devoted to deciding when to return.
“You have folks who want to return, and you have folks that don’t want to return," he said. "And at the end of the day, I think about our kids.”
Twin Rivers Unified’s board voted to reopen schools doors in a hybrid model on Jan. 19, 2021. The district is just one of many that have decided to return to in-person schooling, or are in the process of doing so. And there’s wide variation in how and when districts will be re-opening their doors as counties in the Sacramento region loosen restrictions.
Sacramento City Unified School District has not set a date to resume in-person schooling, but it has opened six “learning hubs” where kids of essential workers and students with special needs can learn online while being supervised. They’re also given breakfast and lunch.
Folsom Cordova Unified School District decided to re-open to elementary school students in early November. Middle schoolers will return later that month, and high schoolers will come back in January.
San Juan Unified School District will have in-person instruction starting Jan. 5, but students can choose to remain in a distance-learning option. Students with special needs will return in early November.
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