July 31, 2020 – Jill Tucker of the San Francisco Chronicle covers negotiations around school reopening plans across the Bay Area. Deputy Managing Attorney Angelica Jongco is quoted:
All negotiations are a balancing act of protecting the health and safety of teachers and students, while figuring out how to best educate children in “completely unprecedented times,” said Angelica Jongco, deputy managing attorney at Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm focused on poverty and racial discrimination.
Figuring that out will take the experience of teachers, students, parents and administrators.
“It’s extremely hard on everyone,” Jongco said. “If the plan is solely made between teachers and district staff without families being consulted, or in the older grades, students being consulted, we’re probably not going to get to the best solution.”
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