San Francisco Vs San Francisco School Board: A Push To Get Students Back In School

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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, seen in 2019, filed suit against the San Francisco Unified School District Wednesday in an attempt to bring public school students back to in-person learning.

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Empty school buses sit in a lot in San Francisco, July 2020. San Francisco Mayor London Breed supported the city attorney’s decision to sue the school district. He believes students need to get back into schools.

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The Coronavirus Crisis
Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues

By no means are Bay Area residents out of the woods, but cases appear to be dropping. Cases in San Francisco are about where they were in the beginning of December. A rolling average of 163 new cases daily.

The state has administered approximately 3.8 million doses of the coronavirus vaccines, including just over 90,000 in San Francisco. According to the state’s vaccine distribution plan, teachers are now eligible for inoculation.

NPR’s Anya Kamenetz contributed this story.