SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — California schools, may be closed for the remainder of the school year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday night.
“The right thing to do for our children, the right thing to do for the parents, for households, for the community in which they reside, is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our school system up where we are increasing class time, but increasing it at home,” Newsom said.
That means, he said, “fulfilling obligations through distance learning and other mechanisms to make sure that we’re educating our kids, but not doing so physically on the school sites.”
While this is not a mandatory order, El Dorado County is taking the suggestion of Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond. Therefore, schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District will implement distance learning for the remaining of the school year….READ MORE
