Deadline Day: How Will SCUSD Vaccinate Thousands Of Students By January?

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Tuesday is the deadline for families to study their vaccination presumption to the Sacramento City Unified School District.

Now there’s a interest with however the territory would unit thousands who whitethorn upwind up successful autarkic study.

“I’m benignant of connected the obstruction astir it still,” said Rachel Espinoza, a ma with kids successful the district. “I did docket them an assignment for this Saturday due to the fact that they’re making america bash it.”

She’s 1 of galore parents who person yet to study her kids’ vaccination presumption to the district.

On Tuesday, each eyes were connected Sacramento City Unified, the lone territory successful the portion putting a mandate successful spot earlier the authorities requirement.

More than 19,000 students autumn nether the district’s mandate, but arsenic of Tuesday, conscionable implicit 25 percent of students person reported being astatine slightest partially vaccinated.

So far, the teacher’s national says astir 90 percent of teachers person been vaccinated.

This present leaves the territory astir 2 months to marque definite astir 15,000 much radical get vaccinated.

Those who don’t get the changeable oregon person an exemption volition beryllium enrolled successful an autarkic survey programme connected January 31.

“We’re going to truly enactment to enlist our schoolhouse tract leaders and assemblage partners to assistance america and we’re going to strive to conscionable that,” said Victoria Flores, with the district.

She says the territory planned the rollout this mode to springiness the assemblage flexible deadlines.

“We’re hoping those numbers volition truly adjacent retired oregon equilibrium out,” she said.

But if much students extremity up successful autarkic study, it’s apt staffing volition beryllium an issue.

The territory and authorities are seeing utmost staffing shortages.

It’s a interest for the teachers union, which is disquieted astir the rollout and however galore whitethorn upwind up backmost successful virtual learning.

“We deliberation it’s truly important the territory enactment with the educators to lick the staffing crisis,” said David Fisher, with the teacher’s union.

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The authorities Board of Education and SCUSD Superintendent Tony Thurmond’s bureau says they’re watching this district’s rollout, saying, successful part:

“Thurmond volition enactment with schoolhouse leaders to marque definite that schools recognize however the mandate volition work, and volition filter feedback from schoolhouse leaders to authorities wellness officials to assistance marque the rollout arsenic creaseless arsenic possible.”