Schools issue warning: Coronavirus testing and tracing are needed before campuses reopen

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Schools issue warning: Coronavirus testing and tracing are needed before campuses reopen
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coronavirus: California's largest school districts say fall reopening requires testing, contact tracing and more funding

, with schools switching to remote instruction. The reopening of campuses is widely seen as essential to fully reopening the economy.Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budgetThat spending plan would exacerbate “the already precarious financial situation of public schools,” said Vernon M. Billy, CEO of California School Boards Assn., which is part of the coalition."It’s not realistic”

The state’s top education official said it’s reasonable to question how campuses will be able to reopen. School districts are “saying the reality is we would need more revenue,” said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. “And I don’t know that anyone would disagree. The governor wouldn’t disagree.”The state education department, he said, is trying to coordinate planning among education and health officials.

“Varying recommendations by Los Angeles County and the 26 cities that are within the Los Angeles Unified geographical boundaries will create confusion and unnecessary risk by treating students and employees differently,” said the letter, which was cosigned by the unions representing teachers, administrators and other nonteaching employees.

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