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Santa Clara County The county has approved waivers for 15 elementary schools so far, and is keeping a list of the approvals and applications received on its public health website. The approved schools are a mix of private, public, independent and charter schools, and some can reopen only for students with disabilities and special needs. … [Read more...] about Bay Area elementary schools are starting to reopen. Here’s where each county stands

There is no one ideal testing interval for coronavirus surveillance. How often a school or other large group setting should get tested depends on how prevalent the virus is in the community. Places where infection rates are low probably don’t need to test that often, whereas places with higher rates do. Weekly or twice-weekly testing might catch the virus in everyone who is tested. However, it may not even be necessary to test everyone in a given setting, as long as a representative sample is tested frequently. … [Read more...] about How Bay Area schools plan to conduct coronavirus testing for students and staff

The staff at BlueSkies converted a meeting room into a new classroom, which required purchasing toys, desks and other furniture, and hiring a teacher as well as an aide. At Hearts Leap School in Berkeley, administrators rented rehearsal space from a theater next door and turned it into a kindergarten. Other schools hung curtains to partition their buildings and separate kindergartners from younger children. … [Read more...] about The first day of kindergarten means going back to preschool for some Bay Area kids

9:55 a.m. Trump told author virus was more deadly than flu: While President Trump repeatedly likened the coronavirus in public to the seasonal flu and downplayed it as not a serious threat, he contradicted that in a taped conversation: “That’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu,” he said on taperecordings Bob Woodward made for his new book “Rage.” Publicly Trump said the new virus would soon disappear, and not until weeks after that Feb. 7 interview did he publicly acknowledge that the virus could be transmitted through the air. He salso said March 19 that “it’s turning out it’s not just old people,” but “plenty of young people” the virus affected, also at odds with his public commentary. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus news from the Bay Area: Sept. 8-9

Majesty’s school, Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, was supposed to be one of the first public campuses in the Bay Area to reopen to in-person learning this fall, but had to reverse course after a staff member’s COVID-19 test result came back questionable Monday, said Principal David Finnane. … [Read more...] about Kids and teachers showed up for first Bay Area school reopening, but class was canceled