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In the News: New York, Houston and Atlanta have opened schools; San Francisco has not
KTVU covers a Decreasing the Distance Zoom In. Read more here.
Read MoreIn the News: The new denizens of Dolores Park are four feet tall
The nine figures sat silently on camping chairs and blankets in Dolores Park, shaded by a big tree. They’re wired in, laptops open and headphones on, rapidly typing while keeping an eye on their video calls and packed calendars. A chihuahua ambles between them, sniffing shoes and nudging legs, to figure out what they’re up…
Read MoreIn the News: San Francisco parents hold another day of Zoom-in protests
SAN FRANCISCO – For the second day in a row, parents in San Francisco fed up with distance learning on Friday brought their kids to Zoom into their lessons from outside of a closed elementary school, in an effort to show just how much kids need to be back in the classroom. Read more here.
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Sing Tao Daily covers a Zoom In. Read more here.
Read MoreIn the News: Reopening schools: How San Francisco parents are pushing to start in-person learning
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Parents in San Francisco are bringing their children outside to send a message to the school district. Read more here.
Read MoreIn the News: San Francisco Students Hold Outdoor ‘Zoom-In’ Protest Over Continued Distance Learning
In the News: ‘Zoom-in’ outside SFUSD schools urges district to resume in-person learning
‘Zoom-in’ outside SFUSD schools urges district to resume in-person learning With San Francisco public schools still closed and distance learning still in place nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic first began, a group of parents and students on Thursday held a demonstration to protest the continued closures. The 9:30 a.m. demonstration, or “Zoom-in,” was…
Read MoreIn the News: S.F. families log on for distance learning outside closed public schools in protest
For the first time in nearly a year, at least some San Francisco public school students went to their school campus Thursday to learn. But it wasn’t to enter their classrooms. Instead, at 9:30 a.m., students and families sat outside Clarendon Elementary and logged onto their computers and into online classrooms at a park across…
Read MoreOp Ed: San Francisco’s families cannot wait any longer for schools to reopen
By Seth Brenzel, Dheyanira Calahorrano, Meredith Willa Dodson, Yvette Edwards and Lorin Yin San Francisco Unified School District is in crisis. Despite recent assertions by commissioners Gabriela López and Alison Collins that safe reopening is a priority, the Board of Education and the District have not fulfilled their responsibility to care for their more than…
Read MoreIn the News: School Reopening Pits Parents Against Teachers: “Is There a Word Beyond ‘Frustrating’?”
MT. LEBANON, Pa.—Patrick Cozzens had never spoken up at a school board meeting until he stood in front of a crowd of angry parents earlier this month to read a statement his 16-year-old daughter helped him to write. “I’ve watched her go from a child that has loved school, thrived at school her entire life,…
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