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SFGATE: Schools close in California county after virus list issue

Schools close in California county after virus list issue
Published on August 22, 2020 at 04:06AM by

UKIAH, Calif. (AP) — Schools in one California county were forced to close this week when state officials said their coronavirus cases had been higher than previously reported, and several hundred students were sent home from class, officials said Friday.

Michelle Hutchins, superintendent of schools in Mendocino County, said she learned this week the county had been placed on a state monitoring list for coronavirus infections with a date retroactive to July 25, and that as a result schools should have not been allowed to open for in-person instruction after that point in time.

Hutchins said on Wednesday she sent home 300 to 400 students who had already started the year off in largely rural schools. It's possible elementary school students will be allowed to return under special waivers offered by the state but middle and high schoolers will remain on distance learning until virus conditions meet the state-mandated thresholds for the Northern California county to fall off the state's monitoring list, she said.

“Now, they're scrambling to not only switch to distance learning but to complete this waiver process,” Hutchins said, adding that most of the 12,500 K-12 public and charter school students live in more urban areas that had already planned to start the year with distance learning.

The situation comes after California faced a problem in late July with electronic lab reports that were getting backlogged at the state. The state said it has since fixed the data issue but it led to a delay in reporting about 14,000 virus cases.

California students are facing a wide range of situations as they head into the academic year. Many of the state's largest counties remain on the monitoring list due to higher rates of infection, and are only offering distance learning. Some are allowing elementary schools to apply for...

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