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Pleasanton Unified School District will resume discussion about possibly reopening next month at a special Board of Trustees virtual meeting on Thursday (Feb. 18), starting 5:30 p.m.
The district will present a plan that evening to have all pre-K through 12th-grade students back to school by early March. Assuming that Alameda County has been in the red tier of the state COVID-19 case monitoring system for five days, the proposal would have students in pre-K to grade 2 return on March 4, followed by grades 3 through 8 on March 8, then finally high school and alternative education students on March 11, according to district documents.
New state guidance allows elementary schools to reopen while the county is in the purple tier, as long as the case rate is less than 25 per 100,000 people, but secondary schools must remain closed to in-person instruction while in the purple.
An extensive debate on the matter ended in two split votes due to Board President Joan Laursen’s absence at their Feb. 11 meeting. The trustees disagreed on when students should return — particularly secondary grades — with half proposing five days after Alameda County is in the red tier.
As of Wednesday, the average adjusted case rate was 12.6 per 100,000, according to the Alameda County Public Health Department website. The county is currently still in the purple tier but case data has been recently trending downward.
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