Bay Area Schools Inch Toward Reopening

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Amidst mounting pressure from parents, health experts and politicians in the Bay Area to reopen schools for in-person learning, the Berkeley Unified School District this week announced a plan to vaccinate all teachers and start getting most students back into class in mid April. On Wednesday, San Francisco's superintendent of schools said the district is gearing up to reopen but didn't offer specifics. We'll get the latest on the status of school openings across the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2	And welcome back to Forum.
0:38.5	I'm Scott Schaefer.
0:39.3	And for the rest of the hour, we're going to be getting into the rising tension and political pressure around efforts to reopen public schools in the Bay Area.
0:47.8	Few issues touch people more than whether or not their kids can go to school.
0:52.7	As teacher unions insist on vaccinating teachers before
0:55.6	they return to the classroom, it is creating a lot of controversy. And joining us now to discuss
1:01.0	the latest is KQED senior editor for Education and Equity, Julia McAvoy. Good morning, Julia.
1:07.7	Good morning, Scott. How are you? I'm doing well, but parents, not so much. What exactly is the
1:13.3	toll of these schools being closed? Of course, not all of them are closed, especially private schools,
1:19.2	but we'll talk more about that. But what is the toll at this point on parents and especially on kids?
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