San Jose Unified announces teachers will not return to start the year; Fremont Unified announces distance learning

On Friday night, the San Jose Teachers Association informed San Jose Unified that it would be unsafe for teachers to return to classes to start the year and that the district should make plans for distance learning.

In an email to parents, San Jose Unified said they are “reassessing the details of returning students to their classrooms in the fall” but stopped short of announcing plans for distance learning.

Also on Friday night, the Fremont Unified school board voted to begin the school year with distance learning. The decision sets a benchmark of seven consecutive days of no new Covid-19 cases in Alameda County before they will begin to consider allowing a majority of students to return to school. A future vote will decide if special education students will be allowed to return to campuses.