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Governor Gavin Newsom provides an update on the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recorded December 30, 2020 in Sacramento, California.
Governor Gavin Newsom today released the State Safe Schools for All plan, California’s framework to support schools to continue operating safely in-person and to expand the number of schools safely resuming in-person instruction. Informed by growing evidence of the decreased risks and increased benefits of in-person instruction – especially for our youngest students – Governor Newsom is advancing a strategy that will help create safe learning environments for students and safe workplaces for educators and other school staff. The plan was developed in partnership with the Legislature, and the Governor will propose an early action package to ensure schools have the resources necessary to successfully implement key safety precautions and mitigation measures. Components of the plan will be launched in the coming weeks.
The Administration’s strategy focuses on ensuring implementation and building confidence by bringing back the youngest children (TK-2) and those who are most vulnerable first, then phasing in other grade levels through the spring. This phased-in return recognizes that younger children are at a lower risk of contracting and transmitting COVID-19. At the same time, distance learning will remain an option for parents and students who choose it and for those whose health status does not allow them to return to school in the near term.
California’s Safe Schools for All framework to safe reopening of in-person instruction is built on four pillars:
1. Funding to Support Safe Reopening: The Budget will propose for immediate action in January, $2 billion to support safety measures – including testing, ventilation and PPE – for schools that have resumed in-person instruction or phasing in of in-person instruction by early spring.
2. Safety & Mitigation Measures for Classrooms: To further ensure health and safety in the classroom, the Administration will support implementation of key health measures. This will include frequent testing for all students and staff, including weekly testing for communities with high rates of transmission; masks for all students and staff, including distribution of millions of surgical masks for school staff; improved coordination between school and health officials for contact tracing; and prioritization of school staff for vaccinations.
3. Hands-on Oversight & Assistance for Schools: Dr. Naomi Bardach, a UCSF pediatrician and expert on school safety, will lead the Safe Schools for All Team, a cross-agency team composed of dedicated staff from CDPH, Cal/OSHA, and educational agencies. The Team will provide hands-on support to help schools develop and implement their COVID-19 Safety Plans. These supports include school visits and walk-throughs as needed, webinars and training materials and ongoing technical assistance.
4. Transparency & Accountability for Families and Staff: A state dashboard will enable all Californians to see their school’s reopening status, level of available funding and data on school outbreaks. Additionally, a web-based “hotline” will empower school staff and parents to report concerns to the Safe Schools for All Team, which will lead to escalating levels of intervention beginning with technical assistance and ending with legal enforcement.
Please find additional details about the components of the plan at https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Safe-Schools-for-All-Plan-Summary.aspx
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus
A
B
In
particular,
I'm
going
to
talk
more
about
what
we're
currently
doing
and
today
announce
what
we
are
proposing
to
do
as
we
enter
in
to
the
next
phase
of
our
school
reopenings
relates
to
the
issue
of
learning
goes
without
saying
it's
non-negotiable,
but
obviously
neither
is
safety
and
that's
been
the
baseline
to
which
we
have
advanced
guidelines
for
public
education
here
in
the
state
and
these
the
guidelines
that
we
have
established
going
back
until
back
in
may
of
this
year,
fundamental
fact
that
learning
remains
non-negotiable
but
obvious.
Neither
is
safety,
so
safety
and
mitigation
measures.
B
Clearly,
we
believe,
can
prevent
transmissions
in
the
school
setting
transmissions
among
and
from
younger
students.
Students
to
students
is
simply
not
common
and
we
have
the
basis
of
not
just
conjecture,
but
many
many
studies
that
we
want
to
share
with
you
just
briefly
in
a
moment
to
bear
that
out.
It
relates
to
one
of
those
studies.
B
The
cdc
put
out
a
study
of
kids
with
positive
and
negative
tests
across
the
spectrum
across
all
states
and
going
to
school
fundamentally
was
not
associated
with
a
quote:
unquote:
higher
risk
of
getting
kova
19
and
I
say
higher
risk
because
no
one's
naive
about
the
risks
associated
with
the
community
spread
and
the
associated
risks
associated
with
not
just
kids
transmitting
covet
to
other
children
and
other
kids,
but
the
impacts
of
adults.
Caregivers.
B
B
We
know
that
we
have
seen
based
upon
the
studies
that
have
been
put
in,
that
more
outbreaks
indeed
do
occur,
in
fact,
based
on
a
number
of
study,
schools
that
have
not
required
these
measures
that
have
not
focused
on
these
safety
standards
have
seen
two
and
a
half
times
more
in
terms
of
outbreaks
than
those
that
did
so.
The
point
of
emphasis
here
is
that
safety
is
key.
Just
reopening
a
school
for
in-person
instruction
on
its
own
is
not
going
to
address
the
issue
of
safety.
We
have
to
focus
on
these
mitigation
steps.
B
B
Those
signs
in
the
classroom
where
the
classroom
community
can
address
those
issues
and
work
with
social
service
agencies
and
the
like
to
call
out
some
of
those
abuses.
Those
tragic
abuses
at
home,
the
higher
rates
of
immunizations
across
the
spectrum
not
just
related
to
issues
associated
with
this
current
pandemic
and
obviously
other
indicators
of
wellness,
public
health
of
well-being,
more
broadly
defined.
Those
are
the
benefits.
The
health
benefits
of
in-person
instruction
here
are
the
current
guidelines
that
are
in
place,
and
I
think
it's
important
to
underscore
this.
B
Kids
are
learning
they're,
just
not
learning
all
equally,
particularly
our
youngest
children,
and
I
say
that
not
intellectually,
I
don't
say
that
on
the
basis
of
someone
else's
analysis
or
study,
but
my
own
experience
at
home
with
four
young
children,
my
oldest
11,
my
youngest,
just
having
turned
four
a
number
of
months
ago.
The
experience
that
we're
having
just
in
our
own
household
is
very
very
telling,
as
it
relates
to
different
ages,
different
cohorts,
different
learning,
differences
that
my
children
have
that
they
inherited
from
their
father.
B
There's
1731
elementary
school
waivers
that
are
in
place
at
least
as
of
72
hours
ago.
That
number
changes
on
a
relatively
consistent
basis,
but
over
1700
schools
have
applied
for
and
received
waivers
based
upon
the
guidelines
we
first
issued
in
may,
even
when
they're
in
these
more
restrictive
tiers,
the
purple
tier
you
may
recall
which
we
had
laid
out
a
number
of
months
ago.
B
B
We
had
17
counties
that
were
mostly
operating
online,
mostly
operating
with
the
distance
learning
construct
in
20
counties
in
the
survey
in
november
that
were
providing
some
mix
of
the
two.
So
those
are
the
current
guidelines.
That's
the
current
status
as
it
relates
to
what
is
in
place
as
we
speak
and
I'll
remind
you
in
addition
to
the
guidelines
we
put
out
in
may,
we
also
put
out
a
substantial
amount
of
money
working
with
the
legislature.
B
Why,
across
the
spectrum
of
supports
here
in
this
state,
we
also
provided
just
as
a
reminder.
We
provided
two
months
of
free
ppe,
we
put
it
up
early
in
the
school
year
august,
provided
those
supports.
So
there
was
no
issues
on
face
coverings
and
masking
at
least
providing
that
60
days
up
front.
So
there
was
no
stress,
no
anxiety
related
to
that.
So
that's
a
that's
a
status
update.
Now
everybody
lives
in
a
particular
part
of
the
state
particular
school
district.
It's
had
experiences
that
are
unique
and
distinctive.
B
I
recognize
that
this
is
just
in
the
aggregate.
What
the
bigger
picture
looks
like
your
unique
experience,
obviously
is
by
definition
unique
and
some
of
you,
like
myself,
we
had
our
schools
reopen
for
a
very
short
period
of
time,
then
only
to
close
back
down,
and
so
these
fits
and
starts
have
been
incredibly
trying
and
challenging.
I
know
for
parents
for
paraprofessionals,
for
teachers
for
caregivers,
for
all
of
us
communities,
large
and
small,
all
across
the
state.
B
Looking
at
you
know,
beginning
february
march
april,
where
are
we
going
to
be
and
how
can
we
assert
more
clarity,
more
focus
and
really
create
an
establishment
of
expectation
relating
to
again
our
default
of
safely,
bringing
our
kids
back
in
person?
Learning
back
in
to
the
classroom
for
all
of
those
social
emotional
benefits.
Here's
the
plan,
phased-in
in-person,
learning
strategy
that
would
focus
disproportionately
on
those
youngest
cohorts
and
those
that
are
most
in
need
are
high
risk
children,
special
education,
those
populations,
foster
care,
homeless,
children
and
others
that
clearly
need
that
extra
amount
of
support.
B
So
the
idea
is
to
begin
tk26
with
special,
ed
and
populations,
as
we
note
here
that
have
been
dispersedly
impacted
by
this
pandemic,
but
also,
more
broadly,
are
disproportionately
impacted
by
a
series
of
issues
that
are
well
defined
in
this
state.
We
also
want
to
improve
our
efforts
to
get
everybody
moving
in
a
similar
direction
to
be
back
on
track
across
the
spectrum
by
early
spring
of
2021..
B
Now
distance
learning,
I'm
going
to
make
this
clear,
will
still
remain
an
option
for
parents
and
students
and
there's
a
lot
of
trepidation.
We
recognize
that
a
lot
of
anxiety
about
going
back
into
the
classroom,
which
one
has
to
clearly
acknowledge
not
just
for
our
teachers,
but
also
for
our
parents,
particularly
with
kids,
that
may
have
unique
conditions
that
may
not
make
that
ideal,
and
so
we
want
to
maintain
the
ability
to
continue
to
get
the
learning
that
you've
been
receiving,
as
it
relates
to
that
distance
learning.
B
Elementary
schools
can
open,
but
only
if
they
submit
a
safety
plan
to
both
local
and
state
officials,
and
so
this
is
the
new
guidelines
that
we'll
be
putting
out.
Local
health
departments
can
disapprove
so
rather
having
a
default
of
no
it's
a
default
of.
Yes,
you
can
disapprove
within
five
days
once
open
those
local
and
state
officials
have
an
obligation
now
to
monitor
and
provide
support
enforcement,
technical
assistance
across
the
spectrum
of
support
to
enforce
the
guidance.
B
B
That
are
simply
not
having
those
guidelines
being
forced
that
are
not
getting
the
support
that
they
deserve,
but
also
not
operating
as
they
should,
and
so
it's
an
obligation
with
these
new
measures
that
we're
more
transparent
and
also
we're
all
more
accountable
across
the
spectrum
of
support,
not
just
local
but
at
the
state
level
as
well.
Counties
also
must
have-
and
we
can
talk
more
about
this-
dr
gally
can
talk
about
some
of
the
epidemiology
around
this
and
talk
about
the
why?
B
But
we
must
have
a
seven
day,
average
case
rate
of
less
than
28
cases
per
hundred
thousand
per
day
to
implement
the
plan.
This
is
a
nuance,
but
an
important
nuance,
so
we
could
talk
about
that
later.
But
here
are
the
four
pillars
that
guard
this
strategy.
This
is
our
california
safe
schools
for
all
plan
funding,
safety
and
mitigation
efforts
I'll
go
through
each
one
of
these
in
detail,
hands-on
oversight
and
assistance
and
then
again
the
issue
of
transparency
and
accountability
that
families
deserve
and
our
school
staff
deserves.
B
Let's
jump
right
into
the
funding,
here's
the
idea
we
have
been
working-
and
I
want
to
thank
senator
leyva.
I
want
to
say
thank
assembly
member
o'donnell
in
particular,
who
have
been
the
spectacular
partners
in
terms
of
engaging
through
the
legislative
frame
in
a
very
iterative
process
to
help
us
develop
the
framework
of
this
plan,
and
I
want
to
make
this
crystal
clear.
This
is
an
iterative
process.
B
When
you
consider
that's
more
than
all
instructional
materials
and
textbooks
more
money,
we
provide
even
supplemental
supports
for
people
with
special
needs,
et
cetera,
but
that's
the
base
line.
It's
high
budget
700,
but
baseline
is
450
per
people
support.
That's
the
two
billion
those
funds
will
be
weighted
to
schools.
B
B
In
that
framework,
you
can
see
the
requirements
based
upon
the
proposal
as
we
are
advancing
it
today
of
testing
symptomatic
testing
or
asymptomatic,
depending
on
where
you
are
in
that
cohort.
Asymptomatic
testing
in
the
purple
cohorts,
obviously
the
deep
purple
as
well
as
red
and
then
symptomatic
once
we
start
to
see,
substantial
reduction
in
community
spread
central,
substantial
reduction
in
case
rates
and
positivity
rates.
So
that's
the
testing.
B
Tracy
we've
talked
a
lot
in
the
past
about
the
partnerships
with
local
health
officers
and
our
contact
tracers
and
turning
over
some
of
the
deployment
and
the
focus
and
the
energy
and
the
intention
of
engagement
with
our
local
health
officers
in
our
school.
We're
going
to
do
more
in
that
space
and
then
on
vaccines.
B
Today,
today,
the
drafting
guidelines,
work
group
and
they're
going
to
meet
to
finalize
phase
1b,
remember
we're
in
phase
1a
of
our
vaccination
plan,
phase
1b
moves
beyond
the
cohort
of
healthcare
workers
and
the
cohort
of
those
in
congregate
facilities,
skilled
nursing
facilities
are
seniors
in
those
environments.
The
one
b
phase
includes
our
teachers
as
a
priority,
and
today
that
drafting
guidelines
work
group.
B
I
don't
want
to
preview,
we'll
see
where
they
end
up,
but
we
anticipate
we
anticipate
that
they
will
formally
approve
that
plan
and
that's
good
news
in
terms
of
the
vaccinations
and
prioritizations,
particularly
to
our
teachers
and
others
that
are
critical
to
help
support
a
safe
environment
for
our
children
and
for
themselves
and
their
colleagues.
Here's
the
hands-on
assistance
we're
talking
about-
and
this
is
critical-
and
this
is
also
very
exciting,
at
least
to
me-
and
hopefully
a
few
of
you
watching.
We
have
just
brought
on
board
a
world
class
ucsf
by
definition.
B
Anyone
who
works
at
ucsf
is
world
class,
but
dr
naomi
barack
is
a
world-class
ucsf
pediatrician.
She
also
happens
to
be
one
of
the
leading
experts
on
schools
and
issues
related
epidemiology
and
transmission
of
viruses
in
our
public
schools
and
our
schools
more
broadly
defined
so
she's.
Now
our
point
person
that
will
be
running
our
cross-agency
teams,
so
we've
got
a
spectrum
of
support
from
different
state
agencies
that
will
work
with
local
agencies
again
to
provide
more
oversight.
B
We've
heard
that
critique
loud
and
clear
the
importance
of
more
oversight,
but
also
recognizing
the
importance
of
more
assistance
to
our
schools.
So
that's
webinars.
That's
in
person,
that's
virtual!
That's
all
kinds
of
supports
across
the
spectrum
that
is
critical
to
monitor
and
respond
to
data
in
real
time.
You
can
see
here
the
webinars
that
we'll
publish
training,
materials,
ability
to
answer
and
ask
questions,
and
then
these
walk
throughs.
We
want
to
want
to
do
more
physical
inspections.
We
want
to
be
more
present
and
more
proximate
to
the
concerns
and
also
the
opportunities
for
improvement.
B
So
schools
have
to
post
their
safety
plans.
As
I
said
online,
they
got
to
report
their
data
and
they
have
to
report
any
in-school
transmissions,
and
that
has
to
be
done
in
real
time,
and
these
are
the
new
requirements,
sort
of
tightening
up
the
old
guidelines,
strengthening
them.
As
we
now
move
in
to
this
new
phase,
data
and
plan
submitted
to
the
state
will
be
publicly
now
available
reopening
status.
The
safety
plans.
B
You
can
read
them
as
a
parent,
critical
funding
levels,
gotta
understand,
what's
2
billion
means
something
to
someone,
but
what
does
it
mean
to
my
school
or
my
kids,
and
so
what
that
looks
like
and
that
level
of
funding
available
and
where
those
dollars
are
being
invested,
where
they're
being
spent?
What
does
my
school
look
like
as
it
relates
to
in
school
transmissions?
So
we've
got
a
web-based
hotline.
That's
for
staff
and
parents
to
report
concerns
if
they
don't
have
that
information.
That
information
is
not
flowing
back,
there's,
not
a
real
two-way
conversation.
B
We
want
to
have
a
hotline
that's
available
in
schools
again
that
are
failing
to
implement.
They
have
to
be
penalized,
meaning
there
has
to
be
some
accountability,
we're
going
to
raise
expectations
as
we
create
more
opportunity
for
in-person
instruction,
we're
going
to
demand
something
in
return,
as
it
relates
to
real
accountability.
So
that's
broad
strokes.
B
What
the
plan
is
we're
going
to
put
it
up
in
more
detail,
specificity
with
new
health
guidelines
and
all
the
nuance
bells
and
whistles
details
next
friday,
and
I
just
want
to
not
only
acknowledge
senator
leyva
and
assemblymember
o'donnell,
but
also
the
legislative
leaders,
both
in
the
senate
and
the
assembly
that
assembled
a
cohort
of
education
leaders
within
the
assembly
and
the
senate,
of
course,
led
by
leyva
and
o'donnell,
but
also
other
members
that
were
invaluable
in
terms
of
providing
their
support
and
their
insight.
But
no
one
more
invaluable.
No
one
more
important.
B
As
the
vast
majority
are
more
training,
more
support,
more
devices,
more
connections,
more
opportunity
in
terms
of
that
distance
learning
that
again,
is
ongoing.
That
is
also
so
important
that
needs
to
be
acknowledged
as
well.
It's
been
trying
it's
been
challenging,
and
so
I
want
to
just
before.
I
turn
this
over
to
the
superintendent
of
public
education.
B
C
Thank
you,
mr
governor,
thank
you
for
your
leadership
here
on
advancing
a
framework
to
help
keep
our
schools
safe
as
they
prepare
to
open
good
morning
to
the
state
board
president,
the
darling
hammond
to
dr
golly
and
to
to
californians.
We
know
that
this
is
a
tough
time
and
again,
as
always,
I
want
to
applaud
our
students,
their
parents
and
their
educators
for
your
resilience.
C
There
was
nothing
about
education
that
was
ever
intended
to
be
in
the
manner
that
we
find
ourselves,
and
this
is
definitely
the
toughest
moment
that
most
of
us
will
experience
in
our
lifetime,
but
we
push
forward
and
we
can
get
forward
together
safely.
You
know,
I
appreciate
you,
mr
governor,
for
our
candid
conversations
about
the
importance
of
cova
testing
and
creating
a
pathway
for
our
schools
to
safely
open.
C
There's,
no
question
that
the
vaccine,
when
it's
available,
will
be
a
game
changer
you
reference,
educators
being
at
the
front
of
the
line
that
is
so
important.
But
until
that
happens
until
the
doses
are
available,
it
seems
to
me
that
there's
nothing
more
important
than
robust
kova
testing
and
contact
tracing
to
ensure
that
our
students
and
families
can
be
safe
and
our
educators
that
this
provides
testing
for
a
school
staff
and
students
is
critical.
C
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
leadership
there
and
look
forward
to
working
with
you
and
the
legislature
and
the
state
board
and
other
departments
on
how
this
might
get
implemented
going
forward.
I
want
to
echo
and
add
our
support
for
the
2
billion
dollars
going
forward
to
prioritize
covet
testing.
This
is
the
this
is
the
key
pathway
for
helping
our
schools
to
be
open.
We
look
forward
to
working
with
school
districts.
They
still
have
questions
many
of
our
districts
simply
just
don't
have
the
funding
to
get
access
to
copa
testing.
C
Many
of
them
have
questions
about.
How
do
I
safely
open
and
we
look
forward
to
working
with
them?
The
administration,
the
legislature,
the
state
board,
the
department
of
public
health
and
others
to
really
provide
schools
with
the
how-to
to
open
that
will
be
greatly
informed
by
our
team
at
the
department
of
public
health
in
cal,
osha,
and
we
think
these
are
important
guidelines
that
every
school
needs
to
understand,
so
that
we
can
do
this
safely.
As
we
move
forward.
C
Our
office,
the
state
board
and
others
will
continue
to
work
with
school
districts
on
ways
to
to
you
know,
to
minimize
those
impacts
and
to
offset
those
impacts
by
providing
more
professional
development
for
our
educators
by
making
sure
that
our
students
have
access
to
computers.
You
know
something
that
we
found
out
early
on,
that
many
of
our
schools
don't
have
access
to
computers
and,
of
course,
we're
looking
forward
to
this
year,
working
with
the
governor
and
the
legislature
on
a
plan
to
ensure
that
all
of
our
students
have
high
speed
internet.
C
There
may
be
a
million
students
still
without
it,
and
we
know
that
we
must
address
the
lack
of
infrastructure
to
have
broadband
all
across
our
state,
especially
in
rural
communities,
that
don't
have
any
infrastructure.
So
our
office
will
continue
to
be
available
to
help
school
districts.
We've
announced
grants
to
support
professional
development
to
help
teachers.
We
want
to
work
with
our
school
districts
when
we
receive
additional
federal
funding
that
will
allow
them
to
improve
on
training.
We
know
that
many
families
foster
families
and
homeless
families,
english
learners,
free
and
reduced
lunch.
C
Families
have
been
impacted
in
different
ways
and
so
we'll
be
continuing
our
work
to
strengthen
family
engagement
strategies
to
make
sure
our
kids
are
connected
to
their
schools,
that
they
have
access
the
resources
that
they
need
to
be
successful,
that
we
address
those
students
who
haven't
checked
in
where
attendance
has
been
a
challenge.
We've
literally
been
working
with
school
districts
reaching
out
making
calls
looking
for
ways
to
connect
those
families
to
the
needed
resources.
C
We
will
continue
to
do
all
of
these
things
and
we're
excited
to
work
on
this
plan
to
er
to
accelerate
the
availability
of
cova
testing
and
contract
tracing
in
our
schools.
It's
a
pathway
for
moving
forward
and
we
stay
tuned
and
look
forward
to
working
closely
with
the
governor,
the
state
board
of
education,
the
department
of
public
health
and
the
legislature
and,
of
course,
our
schools
and
how
we
move
them
forward.
B
Thank
you,
mr
superintendent.
Again,
thank
you
for
all
your
hard
work
and
thank
you
for
those
very
honest
and
and
and
forthright
conversations
we've
been
having
over
the
course
of
many
many
months,
not
just
the
last
few
weeks
in
particular,
and
your
insistence
on
real
support,
not
just
rhetorical
support
your
insistence
on
real
funding
to
back
up
our
rhetoric,
and
so
we
look
forward
to
working
together
with
you
and
the
legislature
to
move
this
early
action
budget
request
forward
so
that
we
can
move
forward
with
this
plan.
B
With
that
in
mind,
I
wanna
now
bring
on
linda
hamming.
I
haven't
excuse
me,
who
has
just
been
she's,
an
international
expert
who
has
brought
to
bear
and
to
light
tremendous
amount
of
insight
and
information
from
studies
in
italy,
studies
on
safe
reopening
antibody
studies
in
spain
to
strategies
and
solutions
in
places
like
australia.
B
She
has
brought
forth
studies
from
harvard
from
brown,
not
just
the
cdc
to
sort
of
back
up
our
belief
system
here
and,
as
many
of
you
know,
she
has
been
a
critical
lead
and
advisor
to
the
president-elect
in
terms
of
many
of
these
same
efforts.
So
we
are
blessed
to
have
her
chairing
our
school
board
here
in
the
state
of
california
and
linda.
I
will
now
turn
it
over
to
you.
D
I
appreciate
the
plan
that's
being
announced
and
the
comments
of
our
state
superintendent
as
well
in
terms
of
the
way
in
which
we're
going
to
help
schools
engage
with
this
new
set
of
efforts
to
continue
to
solve.
For
learning.
That's
really
the
goal
here.
We
want
to
continue
to
ensure
that
as
we
bend
the
curve
as
we
get
vaccines
safely
and
equitably
distributed
across
the
state,
as
we
welcome
an
incoming
president
who
is
determined
to
bring
the
pandemic
to
a
close,
that
we
support
schools
in
being
able
to
serve.
D
As
you
said,
the
students
who
are
most
vulnerable,
as
the
state
superintendent
said,
the
many
who
have
been
disconnected
from
learning
and
the
youngest
children
who
benefit
so
much
from
being
in
person
in
a
classroom.
We
have
been
trying
and
succeeding
in
many
respects
to
solve
for
learning.
Since
march,
we
insisted,
like
many
states,
did
not
on
distance
learning.
From
the
very
beginning,
the
governor
first
partner
state
superintendent,
myself
with
support
from
the
legislature,
have
worked
on
the
digital
divide,
issues
that
are
gradually
improving
in
significant
ways.
We
have
more
work
to
do
there.
D
We
have,
of
course,
also
done
enormous
amounts
of
professional
development
with
teachers
and
shared
the
innovations
that
teachers
are
developing
and
creating
across
the
state
for
doing
distance
learning
well
and
for
bringing
kids
back
in
person
safely.
Many
of
our
school
districts
are
open
and
they
are
open
safely,
with
little
or
no
transmission.
Even
in
this
time,
when
the
new
dashboard
is
available,
we'll
be
able
to
see
those
data
more
readily,
the
public
will
be
able
to
see
those
data
readily
and
we
want
to
support
them
to
stay
open.
D
We've
been
tied
to
an
agrarian
calendar
for
the
school
year
that
you
know
begins
in
september
or
august
and
goes
until
may
or
june,
but
many
districts
want
to
and
will
be
supported
to
continue
to
expand
the
school
year
to
offer
schooling
in
the
summer.
We
shouldn't
think
about
this
as
what
we
can
we
cram
in
only
by
may.
D
B
Well,
I
appreciate
everything
linda
thank
you
for
for
making
the
strongest
most
powerful
argument
that
can
be
made
for
the
the
power
and
potency
from
a
pedagogical
perspective,
as
you
suggest,
but
also
just
a
social
emotional
perspective,
of
the
importance
of
all
the
tangibles
and
intangibles
of
being
in
a
classroom
and
all
of
the
development.
That
is
not
just
just
academic
data
development
in
terms
of
one's
mind,
but
the
full
person
that
is
enhanced
in
that
in-person
environment,
and
so
this
is
this
is
this
is
our
argument.
This
is
our
emphasis.
B
This
is
our
strategy,
and
this
is
what
we
look
forward
to
socializing
working
with
community
parents
working
with
leaders
across
the
spectrum,
obviously
working
with
the
legislature
to
advance
to
make
adjustments
to
maintain
a
willingness
to
keep
an
open
mind,
no
one's
ideological
in
this
endeavor.
We
have
a
default,
that's
in
person,
but
we're
not
naive
about
the
challenges,
as
we
address
the
headwinds
on
this
third
wave
and
move
forward,
but
I'm
very
grateful
for
the
leadership
superintendent
linda
and
her
team,
as
well
as
legislative
leadership
and
my
own
team.
B
It's
so
much
more
difficult
for
a
four-year-old
to
focus
on
a
device
than
a
14
year
old.
Now,
maybe
I
don't
have
a
14
year
old,
maybe
11
year
old,
I
can
say
that
with
some
deep
understanding,
14,
maybe
a
whole
another
challenge
and
phase
of
life,
but
certainly
the
younger
cohorts
are
particularly
challenged
in
this
environment
and
that's
why
this
is
so
important
that
we
move
forward
in
a
phased
way
prove
that
we
can
do
this
right
and
effectively
and
safely
with
an
eye
on
everybody's
health
and
safety.
B
First
and
foremost
with
that,
let
me
just
briefly
talk
about
our
case
numbers
we're
trending
a
little
below
the
seven
day
average.
This
is
good
news.
We
talked
yesterday
the
day
before
dr
gala
yesterday,
myself
day
before
about
some
of
the
plateauing
we're
seeing
outside
of
l.a
county
outside
of
southern
california,
more
broadly
as
it
relates
to
the
growth,
the
rate
of
growth.
In
our
case
numbers
in
this
state.
B
These
numbers
are
bearing
that
out
still
substantial,
nonetheless,
30
921
new
cases
in
the
last
24-hour
reporting
period
test
positivity
is
at
12.2
percent
over
a
14-day
period.
You
can
see
that
that
number,
while
growing,
there's
now
some
evidence
that
that
number
may
be
plateauing
as
well
again.
These
data
points
are
not
necessarily
trends
that
are
headlines
yet,
but
we
are
seeing
evidence
of
that
over
a
consistent
period
now,
over
a
course
of
many
many
days,
11.5
percent
14-day
positivity
rate.
B
Two
weeks
ago,
12.2
percent
in
today's
report,
over
20
000
people,
now
hospitalized
34
percent
increase
in
hospitalizations
over
14
day
you're,
seeing
again
that
rate
of
increase
begin
to
decline.
Modestly
statewide
same
with
icu
emissions.
Now,
over
four
thousand
forty,
three
hundred
and
eighty
nine
again
thirty,
four
percent
increase
as
well
in
the
icus.
This
remains
our
top
issue,
not
just
in
southern
california,
but
also
in
the
central
valley,
central
valley
in
southern
california.
Icu.
That's
our
disproportionate
focus.
B
Dr
galley
spoke
to
that
yesterday
with
the
extension
of
the
stay
at
home
order
in
san
joaquin
valley
and
in
southern
california.
Those
broadly
defined
regions
will
have
news
shortly
as
it
relates
to
the
sacramento
region
bay
area
region.
Those
will
be
coming
next
week
in
the
updates.
You
can
see
capacity
currently
still
zero.
Zero
again
doesn't
mean
there
are
no
icu
beds.
It
means
we're
in
the
surge
phase
in
southern
california,
san
joaquin
valley.
B
In
that
surge
phase,
the
bay
area
hovering
again
a
little
over
seven
percent,
the
greater
sacramento
a
little
over
15
percent,
keeping
a
very
close
eye
on
that
in
northern
california
doing
better
than
other
parts
of
the
state.
That's
the
one
part
of
the
state
not
in
this
extended
stay
at
home.
Here's
a
number
that
should
be
sobering
to
anybody.
That's
paying
any
attention
has
a
heart
empathy
that
or
now
just
the
ability
to
digest.
432
human
beings
lost
their
lives
in
this
last
reporting
period
without
precedent,
seven
day,
average
substantially
lower.
B
But
very
very
sobering.
The
deadly
nature
of
this
disease
took
a
41
year,
old's
life.
It
was
a
you
know,
a
con
congressional
aspirin.
He
was
actually
congressional
elect
to
congressman,
elect
in
louisiana
41
years
old
announced
yesterday.
Please
don't
just
assume
or
think
or
believe
naively
that
this
is
just
something
won't
impact
you
because
you're
younger
it's
just
about
older
people.
B
Briefly,
where
close
to
and
1
000
a
little
over
300
000
doses
of
the
vaccine
have
been
administered,
and
these
have
been
injected
into
individuals,
arms,
forgive
the
language
just
to
make
it
clear
what
this
means:
300,
000
plus
doses,
administered
here's
an
update
on
the
vaccine
numbers
moderna.
We
actually
have
a
little
bit
more
modernitosis
now
than
we
do
pfizer
doses,
1.135
million
modernity,
doses
now
committed
in
this
state,
1
million
and
90
000,
pfizer
doses.
B
You
can
see
some
second
doses
they'll
be
available
for
order
which
people
are
placing
now
the
county
level
327
600
in
for
delivery
next
week.
So
you
combine
those
1.13
with
1.09
over
2
million,
now
doses
that
we
have
identified
that
has
arrived
or
is
about
to
arrive
here
in
the
state
of
california
working
aggressively
to
get
those
doses
administered
and,
of
course,
that's.
The
work
that's
been
done
in
real
time.
B
I
encourage
you,
take
a
look
at
that
cova19.ca.gov
website
to
learn
more
about
the
guidelines
working
group
and
their
recommendations
that
they
should
codify
in
advance
on
phase
1b.
That's
the
next
cohort
for
access
of
the
vaccine,
they're
also
working
with
our
advisory
committee
on
plan,
one
c,
and
that
is
a
broader
cohort
and
those
will
be
vaccines.
B
We
will
begin
to
deploy
in
the
first
quarter
of
next
year.
Just
brief
updates
and
we'll
jump
right
into
questions.
I
imagine
some
may
be
interested
in
this
new
coveted
strain
out
of
the
uk,
now
being
seen
across
the
rest
of
the
globe,
at
least
in
some
other
countries,
that
new
strain
appears
based
upon
reporting
appears
now
to
have
landed
in
the
united
states
in
colorado.
Just
for
the
record,
as
I
speak
at
this
moment,
this
could
change
in
an
hour
or
two.
B
We
do
not
have
any
evidence
of
this
strain
yet
here
in
the
state
of
california,
and
I'll
remind
you
just
very
briefly
that
this
state
does
test.
Every
week,
five
to
ten
thousand
tests
are
done.
Genomic
tests
looking
to
advance
a
deeper
understanding
of
the
complexity
of
nuances
of
this
virus
and
new
strains.
B
That's
done
in
partnership
just
here
in
the
northern
part
of
the
state,
for
example,
with
ucsf
and
and
the
team
that
has
been
supported
by
the
biohub
and
support
from
the
philanthropy,
from
facebook
and
and
from
their
founders,
and
so
we're
very,
very
blessed
to
have
those
partnerships,
and
we
are
active
in
our
testing
and
through
that
active
testing.
We
currently
have
no
evidence
of
any
of
the
the
strain
that's
been
reported
from
the
uk
arriving
here
yet
in
the
state
of
california.
B
Just
briefly
because
it's
important
small
business
grants
available
now
we
have
the
ability
today
is
the
day
to
begin
to
draw
down
a
half
a
billion
dollars
in
grants.
This
is
interim
grants
we're
going
to
be
extending
more
support
and
january
budget
which
I'll
be
talking
about
in
the
next
few
weeks.
This
is
half
a
billion
dollars
of
grants
that
have
been
put
up,
25
000
grants
up
to
25
000..
This
includes
cultural
institutions
non-profits,
not
just
small
businesses.
Please
learn
more
about
this.
B
By
going
to
the
covit19.ca.gov
website.
Remind
you
all
that
we
look
forward
to
turning
the
proverbial
page
on
2020.
At
least
many
of
us
do-
and
I
hope
we
all
do
it
safely,
as
we
celebrate
the
end
of
this
very
long
arduous
year,
encouraging
not
to
gather
outside
your
household,
encourage
you
again
to
use
common
sense.
All
the
things
you
know
well
in
terms
of
mitigating
the
spread
of
this
virus
hope
is
indeed
on.
The
horizon.
C
G
Thank
you,
governor.
The
the
press
call
kind
of
had
a
delay
there,
so
you
might
have
already
answered
this,
but
could
you
explain
how
the
testing
and
contract
tracing
will
be
funded?
Who
will
be
responsible
for
non-lab
related
costs
and
it's
the
450
450
dollar
baseline?
That
you
mentioned
is
that
per
month
or
is
that
a
one-time
payment.
B
This
builds
on
the
645
000
that
schools
have
received,
on
average,
already
for
covet,
related
expenses
and
learning
loss
associated
with
a
number
of
investments.
The
5.3
billion
the
state
put
up
in
the
additional
1.47
being
the
substantive
two
investments
that
were
made
under
the
cares
act
as
it
relates
to
testing.
B
We
will
utilize,
and
this
is
one
of
the
reasons
we
were
so
aggressive
in
getting
the
state
lab
up
and
running
the
valencia
lab,
as
it's
referred
to
we're
able
to
get
tests
up
to
150
000.
When
that
thing
is
fully
operational,
these
are
pcr
tests.
These
are
the
these
are
the
state-of-the-art
tests.
These
are
the
mris
of
testing
versus
the
x-rays
of
testing
someone
referenced
in
those
terms
to
me,
the
other
day,
which
I
thought
was
an
interesting
way
of
looking
at
it
antigen
versus
pcr
tests.
B
These
are
the
pcr
tests
and
these
are
available
for
roughly
a
third
of
the
costs
of
what
the
current
market
is
charging
for.
Those
tests
we're
making
those
tests
that
lab
available
to
our
schools
and
we're
providing
the
resources
and
support
not
only
through
this
prop
98
contribution,
but
also,
as
you
saw,
the
work,
we're
trying
to
do
on
the
medicaid
side
of
the
aisle
to
get
reimbursements
for
medi-cal
in
terms
of
the
cost
of
those
tests.
We
maintain
that
testing
is
just
one
part
of
a
larger
strategy.
B
It's
not
the
only
strategy
masking
is
still
foundational
and
fundamental
and
will
monitor,
because
it's
important
to
note
there
is
a
logistics
challenge.
There's
a
staffing
challenge
in
terms
of
the
queuing
up
for
tests
and
making
sure
tests
are
conducted
and
conducted
in
a
safe
way.
So
a
lot
of
work
to
do
in
terms
of
those
plans
and
those
strategies,
the
application
and
the
implementation.
E
E
B
It's
been
a
foundational
principle
for
us
to
reach
out
into
communities
that
are
underserved
and
to
make
sure
that
we
are
distributing
our
vaccines
in
an
equitable
manner.
The
reason
we
created
a
drafting
work
group
was
to
focus
on
equity
was
to
focus
on
the
question
you
have
posed
and
brought
in
that
question
to
other
diverse
communities,
rural
and
remote
parts
of
the
state
that
have
traditionally
been
underserved
and
under-resourced.
B
Seeing
that
framework
a
cultural
competency
in
terms
of
how
we
deliver
those
psas
who
those
trusted
messengers,
are
it's
not
command
and
control
top
down?
It's
really
about
bottom-up
strategy,
and
it's
about
community-led
strategy
working
with
trusted
cbo's.
Not
just
trusted
individuals,
people
in
the
community
that
are
respected,
we
also
specific
to
farm
workers,
have
the
farm
workers
put
in
the
next
phase
phase
1b
in
terms
of
the
implementation
and
application
and
accessibility
of
the
vaccines.
B
That
phase
1b
is
being
discussed
by
our
drafting
guidelines
work
group
this
afternoon
and
they
should
sign
off
on
that
plan
again.
Food
workers,
broadly,
that
includes
grocery
workers
that
have
been
on
the
front
lines
from
day
one
and
not
just
farm
workers,
but
they
will
be
prioritized
again
in
addition
to
our
teachers
in
that
next
phase.
So
that's
part
of
the
strategy,
part
of
the
plan
and
you're
absolutely
right
to
bring
up
this
concern
around
equity
and
access
to
communities
that
have
been
underserved
and
it's
our
job
to
make
up
for
those
issues.
H
Hi
governor
your
plan
says
that
you
support
testing
at
forbes
at
schools
within
in-person
learning.
Does
it
require
testing
at
schools
that
return
to
in-person
learning
and
if
not,
why
not
also
to
schools
do
all
school
reopening
plans
have
to
be
collectively
bargained
with
local
teachers,
unions
and,
if
so,
doesn't
that
give
does
not
mean
those
negotiations
could
push
reopenings
out
far
into
the
future
and
what
sort
of
incentives
are
there
for
teachers
and
staff
to
return
to
schools.
B
So
I
don't
know
that
there
needs
to
be
much
more
impetus
than
that:
a
deep
desire
to
contribute
a
deep
desire
for
service,
the
deep
desire
of
contribution
that
defines
this
extraordinary
and
noble
profession,
as
it
relates
to
the
testing.
It
is
mandatory
if
you
receive
the
resources,
so
that
should
clarify
the
concern
and
that
question
and
as
it
relates
to
meeting
and
conferring
it's
a
principle,
it's
a
foundational
principle
that
workers
should
have
a
voice.
B
That
management
should
have
a
responsibility,
as
well
as
an
opportunity
to
learn
and
listen
to
that
voice
and
have
the
collective
wisdom
and
engage
in
a
dialectic
and
important
conversation
that
is
open
to
the
needs,
the
aspirations
and
desires
and
the
respect
that
is
afforded
of
our
teachers
and
professionals.
So,
yes,
that
process
is
paramount.
That
process
is
important
and
that
process
is
expected
to
be
advanced
in
these
principles
and
in
these
guidelines.
I
B
Others,
we've
had
a
consistent
number
of
conversations
over
the
course
of
many
many
months,
but
notably
over
the
course
of
the
last
many
many
weeks
and
we
have
implemented
the
vast
majority
of
what
you're
hearing
today
has
come
from
their
input
and
from
their
unique
and
distinctive
understanding
of
what
really
happens
in
a
classroom
and
so
the
issues
of
transparency.
The
issues
of
accountability,
issues
associated
with
testing
of
funding.
B
Those
foundationally
are
principles
that
they
have
not
only
been
supportive
of
but
have
been
determined
and
are
determined,
more
importantly,
to
advance
and
to
hold
us
to
account
in
terms
of
the
application
implementation.
So
we
continue
those
dialogues
with
dialogue.
We
continue
to
engage
and-
and
all
I
can
say,
is
just
from
my
personal
perspective.
It
has
been
a
really
a
very,
very
constructive
relationship
and
I
look
forward
to
maintaining
that
moving
forward,
but
forgive
me
for
belaboring
this,
mr
superintendent
and
perhaps
linda.
C
I
would
also
just
highlight
the
experiences
of
our
child
care
centers
across
the
state
who
have
done
remarkable
work
in
putting
strong
protocols
in
place
to
keep
our
children
open.
Our
school
is
open
and
our
children
able
to
be
in
person.
This
is
not
easy.
I
think
there'll
be
many
questions
that
still
need
to
be
worked
out.
The
governor
mentioned
it.
Even
this
proposal
is
iterative,
and
I
think
there
are
still
conversations.
C
I
can't
speak
for
teacher
unions,
but
you
know,
I
think,
that
a
significant
concern
that
many
of
the
unions
have
raised
is
the
need
for
robust
testing
and,
I
think,
that's.
I
think
this
shows
direction
moving
forward,
but
they'll
still
need
to
be
conversations
and
our
office
is
available
to
help
convene
union
leadership
and
school
district
management
and
state
government
leaders
together
to
keep
talking
about
the
details
about
how
to
ensure
that
everyone
is
doing
the
right
thing.
C
Everyone
is
using
koba
testing
and
contact
tracing.
Everyone
is
requiring
ppe
and
maintaining
physical
distancing.
You
know
their
enforcement
will
be
important
to
make
sure
that
every
single
school
district
is
following
the
guidelines
put
out
by
cal,
osha
and
by
the
california
department
of
public
health,
to
ensure
the
safety
of
our
students
and
the
staff
who
serve
them
and
we're
committed
to
helping
to
make
sure
that
those
conversations
take
place
linda.
You
may
have
other
thoughts
pass
it
on
to
you,
yeah.
D
I'll
just
add
one
thought:
you
know
you
mentioned
marin,
county
40,
000
students
have
been
attending
school
there
for
the
last
several
months.
This
fall
5
000
teachers,
almost
no
cases
of
transmission
within
those
schools,
so
most
of
the
students
are
students
with
disabilities,
but
the
plan
does
not
require
that
every
single
student
who
has
offered
instruction
come
back.
J
Governor
my
question
is
about
vaccines.
Are
you
concerned
that
the
state
is
falling
behind
schedule
in
terms
of
the
pace
of
vaccinations?
I
mean
we're
a
couple
weeks
in
now.
I
think
we're
around
13
percent
of
phase
1a
population
and
the
cdc
originally
said
that
they
were
expecting
states
to
be
able
to
vaccinate
all
their
phase
one
healthcare
workers
within
three
weeks
or
so
I'm
curious
if
you
feel
the
vaccinations
are
progressing
more
slowly
than
you
anticipated
and
if
so,
why.
B
B
I
just
want
to
stipulate
how
proud
I
am
to
be
in
a
country
that,
through
the
incredible
work
of
those
that
were
part
of
operation,
wart
speed
was
able
to
develop
safe
vaccines
that
are
as
effective
as
these
vaccines
appear
to
be
particularly
modern
and
pfizer,
and
many
many
others
that
will
be
coming
on
the
market
very
very
soon
and
so
we're
eager
to
get
these
vaccines
administered.
We
have
over
three
hundred
thousand
now
that
have
been
administered.
B
It
would
be
nice
to
have
millions
more
doses
to
administer,
but
at
this
stage
I
really
think
it's
wise
for
us
to
be
a
little
more
humble
about
where
we
are
in
relationship
to
this
unprecedented
effort
to
vaccinate
hundreds
of
millions
of
americans
in
a
very
short
period
of
time.
And-
and
so
we
are
mindful
of
the
pratfalls
and
the
challenges
and
the
setbacks,
the
opportunities
and
and
and
we
will
hold
ourselves
to
higher
level
accountability
than
even
you
will.
B
F
Kate
wolfe
kqed
hi
governor,
so
in
the
past
two
weeks
alone,
according
to
cdcr
data,
23
incarcerated
people
have
died
in
california,
prisons,
131
are
hospitalized
and
thousands
of
inmates
and
correctional
staff
are
actively
sick.
Do
you
think
the
state
needs
to
be
doing
more
to
control
the
outbreaks
in
correctional
facilities.
B
Yeah,
so
on
monday
I
specifically
answered
that
question
but,
more
importantly,
provided
some
context
context
in
answering
that
question,
and
so
what
I'll
do
in
interest
of
time.
I
I'm
concerned
about,
linda
and
and
tony's
time
at
this
moment,
I'll,
provide
you
the
details
that
I
provided
the
public
on
monday
and
I'll,
give
you
an
updated
deck
of
slides
that
lays
out
the
details.
We
actually
have
seen
a
a,
not
significant,
but
a
modest
decrease,
even
since
monday,
in
total
number
of
cases
in
cdcr,
including
san
quentin.
B
We
also
have
laid
out
specifically
on
monday
what
our
testing
and
masking
strategies
are,
and
we
talked
about
the
efforts
on
decompressing
the
system
and
intake,
and
I
updated
folks
on
the
intake.
So
I
will
provide
all
of
that
to
you
in
an
updated
manner.
Team.
I
can
assure
you,
as
we
speak,
is
working
on
that
and
we
will
make
sure
you
receive
that
very
very
shortly.
K
Thank
you,
governor
and
happy
new
year
to
you
on
the
issue
of
education.
There
are
you
worried
that
this
year
has
essentially
been
a
lost
year
for
a
lot
of
kids
and
what
sort
of
efforts
will
be
made
to
make
up
for
that
you're
talking
extra
summer
school
extra
sessions,
kids
may
be
repeating
a
grade.
What
do
you
do
for
kids
that
have
not
come
anywhere
close
to
regular
grade
level
that
they
would
in
a
normal
year?
That's.
B
The
right
question:
it's
a
question:
as
parents
we
ask
ourselves
of
our
children:
how
are
they
progressing
vis-a-vis,
their
peer,
our
own
personal
expectation,
in
terms
of
our
children,
their
own
personal
development,
their
own
individual
needs
and
challenges.
So
this
is
something
that
linda
previewed.
You
may
have
subtly
heard
the
context.
I
don't
want
to
get
too
far
ahead
in
terms
of
the
budget
that
we
will
be
submitting
to
the
legislature
in
the
next
few
weeks,
except
to
say
what
linda
just
suggested.
B
That
has
a
presumption
that
99
of
us
will
be
toiling.
The
fields
come
this
summer
and
so
looking
at
extending
the
day,
looking
and
extending
into
the
summer
looking
at
the
opportunity
to
get
tutors
and
additional
supports
to
address
comprehensive
learning
loss,
I
can
assure
you
is
not
only
top
of
mind
it's
foundational
in
terms
of
the
budget
that
we'll
be
submitting
for
consideration
to
the
legislature
with
that
linda.
B
Maybe
you
can
amplify
without
getting
too
into
the
weeds
and
getting
too
far
into
the
details
before
we
socialize
them
with
the
legislature
more
properly,
but
maybe
talk
a
little
bit
more
because
this
is
the
perhaps
most
important
question
that
parents
and
teachers
are
asking-
and
this
is
the
question
that
we
need
to
answer,
and
we
need
to
do
so.
Deliberatively,
yeah
and
very
very
immediately.
D
Thank
you.
You
know.
We
have
been
concerned
about
tracking
learning
and
supporting
learning
all
along
among
the
things
that
we
did
last
summer
was
require
a
continuity
of
instruction
plan
and
for
districts
to
use
already
approved
diagnostic
and
formative
assessments
to
figure
out
where
students
are
and
to
continue
to
track
their
progress
from
some
large
districts
that
were
able
to
provide
data.
We
can
see
that
learning
loss
has
not
occurred
for
all
students,
but
it
certainly
has
occurred
for
some
and
that
there
is
a
you
know.
D
Students
are
always
learning
but
to
continue
to
learn
in
the
way
that
we
think
of
the
school
curriculum,
as
well
as
all
of
the
amazing
life,
lessons
that
they're
learning
and
responsibility
that
they're
taking
on
that.
We
also
want
to
acknowledge.
So
it
is
very
much
friend
of
mind
and
we
will
be.
You
know
able
to
talk
more
about
that
very
shortly.
C
But
let's
be
clear
where
we
are
right
now
we
are
literally
trying
to
preserve
life
with
more
than
300
000
americans
having
lost
their
lives
to
covet
safety
has
to
be
paramount,
and
our
education
system
wasn't
built
to
to
provide
education
to
all
of
our
students
in
distance
learning,
and
so
we
are
adapting
and
recovering.
While
we
deal
with
some
of
those
losses
again,
I
have
to
commend
our
educators
if
you've,
if
you've
listened
to
any
of
their
zooms
like
I
have.
C
You
know
that
our
educators
are
giving
everything
and
our
students
are
giving
everything
and
their
parents
are
doing
all
that
they
can
and
I
applaud
their
efforts.
Unfortunately,
this
takes
its
toll
on
everyone,
and-
and
so
I'm
hopeful
that
what
we
see
in
our
budget
this
year
also
creates
the
opportunity
for
doing
some
small
class
work
and
some
after-school
work.
C
Obviously,
what
happens
in
the
summer
is
a
great
opportunity,
but
from
my
standpoint,
what
we
do
to
offset
learning
gaps
has
to
start
on
day
one
when
schools
reopen,
whether
they're
in
person
instruction
or
in
distance
learning,
and
that
we
we're
being
forced
to
learn
and
change
how
we
approach,
educating
our
students
and
much
of
that
means
providing
support
to
our
schools
and
to
our
educators.
We
have
to
provide
more
professional
development.
C
We
have
to
ensure
the
students
have
the
appropriate
technology
and
let's
face
it,
even
when
our
schools
return
to
in-person
instruction,
they
need
that
technology
as
much
as
ever
to
make
sure
they're
preparing
for
the
jobs
of
tomorrow.
It's
not
just
about
distance
learning
and
so
we'll
be
doing
many
things
and
and
making
sure
that
we
engage
families.
You
know
find
ways
to
accelerate
the
amount
of
time
that
our
students
have
access
to
the
department
of
education.
C
Our
team
will
be
working
closely
with
the
state
board
of
education
and
president
darling
hammond's
team
and
others
on
strategies
to
accelerate
learning
and
to
offset
learning
gaps,
but
it
would
be
a
misnomer
to
say
that
that
this
was
a
wasted
year.
This
is
a
year
where
we
are
preserving
life,
where
we
are
surviving
and
and
at
the
same
time,
working
to
offset
gaps
that
have
been
accelerated
by
the
pandemic.
B
I
appreciate
that
mr
superintendent
just
to
reinforce
and
that
we
have
been
educating
our
kids
they're
in
school
they're,
just
in
a
different
environment
as
it
relates
to
that
educational
experience
through
distance
learning-
and
I
just
would
know
just
on
a
personal
level,
with
four
different
kids.
Four
different
experiences.
B
No
two
expressions
are
the
same:
they're
unique
and
every
one
of
my
kids,
like
your
kids,
learns
at
a
different
pace
and
what's
fascinating
one
of
my
kids
realized.
She
could
fast
forward
lessons
in
plans
where
she's
already
mastered
the
material,
but
she
also
can
rewind
and
go
back
to
areas
that
were
more
stubborn
and
challenging,
and
she
couldn't
do
that
in
a
more
traditional
environment
and
so
in
many
ways
their
advantages
and
disadvantages.
B
We're
all
learning
at
scale
now,
but
clearly
there
is
opportunity,
even
in
this
environment
and
those
opportunities
have
been
ample
and
plentiful
for
many.
But
there
are
cohorts
where
those
opportunities
are
not
allowing
the
full
expression
of
opportunity
and
that's
what
we
want
to
address.
With
this
new
plan.
L
Governor,
I
had
a
question
one
with
counties
who
very
much
are
well
above
that
adjusted
case
rate
for
schools
to
open.
In
the
meantime,
how
does
the
state
plan
on
working
with
those
counties
that
aren't
meaning
that
rage
and
are
really
like
much
of
the
state
continuing
to
experience
such
a
surge
in
these
cases?
And
then
I
just
wanted
to
ask
you,
just
specifically
with
the
san
joaquin
valley,
just
with
hospitalizations
and
us
having
a
lot
of
vulnerable
populations.
L
J
B
Well,
I
appreciate
that,
let
me
just
update
you,
it's
an
opportunity
and,
and
dr
gali
I'll
ask
you
come
on
and
and
maybe
just
with
respect
to
our
two
outstanding
guests,
I'll
ask
them
to
close
out
on
the
first
part
of
your
question,
but
dr
galley,
I
just
want
to
put
up
a
slide
here
around
the
state
staff
that
we've
deployed.
Now
we
have
over
1200
staff
that
we've
deployed
125
facilities
statewide
in
many
of
those
well,
many
of
those
facilities
are
in
san
joaquin.
In
fact,
san
joaquin
remains
from
a
staffing
perspective.
B
The
most
in
need,
it's
the
it's.
The
area
of
the
state,
this
region
broadly
defined,
that's
most
in
need,
and
so
we
are
trying
our
best
to
supplement
through
state
staff.
Obviously,
each
hospital
is
working
to
contract
staff
and
to
be
more
creative
in
terms
of
their
own
staffing
strategies.
We've
also
deployed
and
we've
also
been
beneficiary
of
these
federal
resources,
which
you
can
see
up
here
and
those
dmacc
teams
down
near
imperial
county
now,
that's
not
san
joaquin,
but
the
dod
teams
that
we
want
to
get
into
different
parts
of
the
state.
M
Thankfully,
to
date
in
much
of
the
central
valley,
we
have
been
focused
on
the
staffing
resources,
as
the
governor
said,
through
efforts
at
the
state
level,
identifying
registry
staff,
what
we
call
traveler
nurses,
who
can
come
to
the
region
to
provide
help
additional
to
that
dod
staff,
our
state
guard
going
in
and
helping
in
any
way
they
can
so
that
has
been
amplified
as
of
late.
I
think
I'll
note
that
today
marks
an
important
day.
Our
statewide
r
effective
number
is
at
1.0.
M
That's
exactly
what
we
want
to
see.
This
continued
trend
downward
of
overall
transmission
across
the
state
that
I
think
people
are
seeing
reflected
in
the
slight
reductions
in
overall
cases,
but
that
is
not
what
we
see
statewide
in
the
central
valley.
We
still
have
counties
well
above
one.
What
that
means
is
that
those
those
hospital
systems
will
need
to
continue
to
prepare
for
additional
patients
coming,
not
just
because
of
thanksgiving
now,
but
really
because
of
hanukkah
and
christmas
and
the
upcoming.
M
What
we
hope
is
a
much
lower
degree
of
transmission
over
the
new
year's
holiday,
so
those
hospitals
are
in
a
tough
spot
at
the
moment,
we're
addressing
their
staffing
needs.
But
we
also
anticipate
because
of
the
disproportionately
high
relative
to
the
rest
of
the
state
transmission
rates
that
that
region
still
is
seeing
that
they
will
continue
to
have
additional
pace.
Patients
coming
to
the
emergency
departments
needing
those
inpatient
services
and,
in
particular
that
icu
level
of
care.
So
something
we're
closely
watching.
M
In
fact,
we
have
recently
deployed
teams,
as
recently
as
ted
this
morning,
to
work
in
those
counties
in
fresno
county
and
some
other
counties
in
that
region
to
make
sure
that
we
have
eyes
on
the
ground
working
closely
with
our
partners.
So
we
can
address
needs
as
they
come
up
in
real
time,
because
every
day
matters
every
minute
matters
frankly,
to
support
those
hospitals
to
do
all
that
they
can.
B
Appreciate
and
linda
and
tony
just
anything,
you
want
to
amplify
again
that
this
and
I
think
it's
it's
a
fair
frame,
concern
and
obviously
question
many
are
asking
is
it
relates
to
background
rates
community
spreads?
Can
we
safely
reopen
a
school
with
high
community
spread
with
background
rates
transmission
that
are
particularly
high?
Can
we
still
create
an
environment
in
a
school
keeping
our
kids
keeping
our
staff,
keeping
our
paraprofessional
teachers
safe.
D
So
we
have
evidence
that
where
schools
are
already
open
or
where
cohorts
of
students
are
coming
back,
even
in
places
with
high
rates
of
transmission
that
they
are
going
to
school
safely
without
transmission
in
the
school
san
diego,
for
example,
is
a
place
that
has
very
high
rates
right
now.
12
000
students
are
in
their
small
cohort
instruction,
and
so
on
we
mentioned
marin
county.
D
The
plan
does
also
allow
for
them
to
be
able
to
access
the
resources
for
that
physical
reopening
at
that
juncture,
even
if
it's
later
than
other
parts
of
the
state
are
able
to
do,
and
so
you
know
the
speed
at
which
we
bend.
The
curve
obviously
will
be
very
important
there,
but
those
resources
will
be
available.
D
We
mentioned
earlier
that
there
are
also
federal
initiatives.
There's
a
state
budget
coming
up
in
washington.
The
congress
passed
a
bipartisan
recovery
measure
that
will
also
be
providing
resources
for
the
variety
of
needs
that
districts
have
particularly
in
higher
poverty
communities,
while
they're
in
distance
learning
and
while
they
are
coming
back
in
person
that
we
hope
will
be
facilitative
in
the
interim
period
of
time.
C
C
You
know
and
evaluate
how
we
proceed
going
forward.
We
have
to
be
prepared
for
changes,
not
every
single
family
and
parent
is
going
to
want
to
have
in-person
instruction,
we're
going
to
find
ourselves
in
a
balance
of
modes
of
instruction
hybrid
instruction.
Every
school
district
is
going
to
have
to
determine.
Can
they
maintain
physical
distancing
of
six
feet
with
the
space
that
they
have?
C
Some
districts
will
be
better
able
to
do
that,
others
will
be
challenged
and
we'll
have
to
make
decisions
accordingly
to
have
fewer
students
who
will
ultimately
come
back
to
campus,
and
that
will
impact
timing.
Can
this
be
done?
I
believe
that
it
can.
I
don't
think
this
can
be
done
without
robust
covet
tracing.
C
People
aren't
getting
sick
at
work
per
se,
but
people
are
coming
to
work,
who've
been
who've,
been
impacted,
and
so
it's
going
to
be
on
all
of
us
do
what
we
can
and
again.
I
look
forward
to
working
on
this
new
iterative
proposal
being
set
forth
today
to
work
with
all
the
various
stakeholders
to
think
through
all
the
best
ways
that
we
can
do.
This
we've
got
to
all
be
in
this
together
and
do
this
together.
B
I
appreciate
the
sentiment
and
I
certainly
appreciate
what
dr
galley
said,
and
I
hope
people
picked
up
on
this
are
effective
being
at
1.0.
We
haven't
seen
that
in
some
time
that's
encouraging.
Now,
not
every
part
of
the
state
experience
is
in
our
effective
rate.
At
that
number.
The
good
news
is,
there
is
light
at
the
end
of
this
tunnel.
The
good
news
is,
we
are
seeing
vaccines
now
being
administered.
B
The
good
news
is,
we
know
how
to
mitigate
the
spread
of
this
disease
by
using
common
sense
by
wearing
face
coverings
by
avoiding
these
large
crowds
by
physically
distancing
and
the
like,
and
so
we
encourage
you
continue
to
utilize
your
common
sense.
Your
good
judgment
do
what
you
can
to
help
us
through
these
non-pharmaceutical
interventions
to
mitigate
the
spread
quicker.
We
do
that
not
only
reopening
our
schools
foundational,
but
also
our
small
businesses
and
getting
back
to
some
semblance
of
the
new
normalcy.
B
This
is
not
a
static
process,
it's
very
dynamic
and
we
are
going
to
get
out
on
the
other
side
and
that's
going
to
happen
in
2021,
and
we
are
anticipating
that
and
a
big
part
of
the
spirit
that
brings
us
together
here
today.
Is
that
spirit
of
optimism,
with
the
proposal
that
we're
setting
forth
on
putting
these
cohort
strategies
out
and
focusing
on
new
state
measures
that
we
now
are
going
to
submit
and
work
with
the
legislature
to
put
into
place
to
get
our
schools
to
open
for
in-person
instruction.