The Coachella Valley Unified School District announced this week the plan for their 2021-2022 school year. Students will return for in-person instruction on Thursday, August 12. CVUSD was going to return to a hybrid schedule in April 2021, but in late March the school board voted to not move forward with the proposed plan. READ […]
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The Desert Sands Unified School District is expected to discuss the possibility of increased in-classroom days Tuesday at the district’s board meeting. Under the agenda item, the current in-person cohorts, A and B, would be combined making the total number of in-classroom increase from two days to four days. This would apply to all grades. […]
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Pre-K through 2nd grade students in the Palm Springs Unified School District will return for in-person learning Monday. In-person instruction will only be two days per week through the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year. On each consecutive Monday an additional grade will return. On the 19th third graders through fifth will return. Middle school […]
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Middle schoolers and high schoolers in the Desert Sands Unified School District returned to classrooms Monday morning. Schools in the district have opted for the hybrid model meaning there will be some in-class instruction and some remote learning. Some parents say their kids are excited to be back to having a sense of normalcy. “I […]
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Cries of ‘welcome back’ and ‘we missed you’ could be heard across Ronald Reagan Elementary school in Palm Desert. It was an emotional day for Desert Sands Unified staff as they greeted students returning to campus for the first time in a year. “I’m going to cry. I have missed the children’s laughter. I have […]
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Palm Springs Unified School Board reviewed their reopening timeline at their meeting Tuesday night. Their initial goal to return on February 16th is now on hold for the time being. “Our adjusted case rate is 107.2, in order to be eligible for reopening you need to be at at 28 per 100k [residents], and […]
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Palm Springs Unified School District Superintendent, Dr. Sandra Lyon, announce Wednesday the district will not start the hybrid learning plans as expected in January. “We had hoped to be able to start our hybrid program of having up to 50 percent of our students back in the classrooms two days a week a week after […]
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Local school districts have spent a majority of the year developing trying to adapt to the pandemic. As reopening tiers change every month, the task hasn’t been an easy one to take on. In Desert Sands Unified, there has been an ongoing dispute between parents and the district about the proposed hybrid model. Now, the […]
