SCUSD unable to impose student COVID-19 vaccine mandate
The Sacramento City Unified School District announced Saturday it doesn’t have the resources to impose its looming COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was supposed to take effect in just a few days. An email to parents from the district obtained by KCRA 3 says in-person learning will continue “until further notice” after the district said it didn’t have enough resources to meet its mandate. It comes three weeks after the district already pushed their deadline back to Feb. 28 after only about half of its students reported their vaccine status. The original deadline which mandated student vaccinations or weekly testing was Jan. 31. If not met, the district planned to move students to an at-home independent study program. But as of Saturday, 3,080 students in the district have not yet reported their status, meaning those students would have been moved to at-home learning at the end of this month.The district said in the email, “it is clear that SCUSD does not have capacity in our Independent Study program for a significant increase in enrollment” and because of that in-person learning will continue until further notice.Meanwhile, all SCUSD staff are still required to report their vaccination status, request an exemption or agree to weekly COVID-19 testing, the email reads. The district said any staff who doesn’t meet the COVID-19 requirement by the deadline will be placed on unpaid leave.”Our staff are critical to serving our students, and we do not want any staff members to end up in this position,” the district said.This while the district announced plans to bring back field trips, extracurriculars, group tours and more as early as Tuesday.The district said their goal is “to improve COVID-19 safety in our community, protect the health of students and staff, and keep our schools open for in-person learning.”| MORE | California ‘getting close’ to ending school masking requirement, top health official saysSCUSD is expected to address its inability to meet the mandate in a board of education meeting scheduled for the beginning of March. It continues to urge parents to report their child’s vaccine status or consent to weekly COVID-19 testing in the meantime.| RELATED CONTENT | Roseville school district at-risk of losing liability insurance over defying state mask mandate
The Sacramento City Unified School District announced Saturday it doesn’t have the resources to impose its looming COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was supposed to take effect in just a few days.
An email to parents from the district obtained by KCRA 3 says in-person learning will continue “until further notice” after the district said it didn’t have enough resources to meet its mandate.
It comes three weeks after the district already pushed their deadline back to Feb. 28 after only about half of its students reported their vaccine status. The original deadline which mandated student vaccinations or weekly testing was Jan. 31.
If not met, the district planned to move students to an at-home independent study program. But as of Saturday, 3,080 students in the district have not yet reported their status, meaning those students…
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