The San Francisco Unified School District is closing all schools for three weeks beginning Monday. Four students and their family members at one campus have shown signs of respiratory illness.
and planning for lessons delivered on TV, public health and school officials said they planned to keep schools open unless a campus has a confirmed case.to close all schools in the district because of the coronavirus.
The school board is meeting in closed session Friday for a status report from L.A. Unified Supt. Austin Beutner. Board President Richard Vladovic said Thursday it was important to rely on the advice of health officials in making the call on whether to close schools.“The prudent decision is take direction from the doctors and the healthcare providers that happen to know,” he said. “I can’t second-guess a pandemic and how it’s spread. If there’s ever a doubt, the safety of children will come first.”
Officials from the governor on down have avoided calling for closing schools, citing the hardships for families and the difficulty in providing academic services and the school meals that children depend on. But Vladovic acknowledged there was widespread debate among parents and employees about what was best.
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