September 24, 2021 astatine 1:48 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS13/AP) — The Oakland Board of Education has voted to necessitate students 12 and older to beryllium vaccinated against the coronavirus to be in-person school.
The determination precocious Wednesday makes Oakland Unified the archetypal schoolhouse territory successful Northern California to follow a vaccine requirement. It came aft Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest schoolhouse district, and the smaller Southern California territory of Culver City approved akin policies for their students earlier this month.
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Several different schoolhouse boards successful the San Francisco Bay Area are considering akin measures, including West Contra Costa County Unified and Berkeley Unified, arsenic schools effort to navigate in-person acquisition during the pandemic.
The program successful Oakland, which serves astir 50,000 students, volition necessitate each students property 12 and older to beryllium afloat vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they are granted aesculapian oregon “personal belief” exemptions, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The solution does not specify a timeline oregon accidental however students’ vaccination presumption volition beryllium tracked. It requires Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Tramell to “develop recommendations for enforcement of this vaccine requirement” and study them to the committee by October.
California requires nationalist schoolhouse unit to either beryllium vaccinated oregon taxable to play investigating starting Oct. 15 but determination is nary akin statewide regularisation regarding students.
Asked astatine a Thursday media briefing if the authorities volition necessitate eligible schoolhouse children beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19 to be in-person classes, California’s caput of wellness and quality services said determination is “no definitive enactment oregon decision” close now. But Dr. Mark Ghaly said requiring students beryllium inoculated to be schoolhouse is thing new.
“We’re watching the acquisition successful Los Angeles, knowing what it means for students and families alike, unit arsenic well, and watching arsenic different counties see the same,” helium said. “So that speech is happening.”
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There is nary information connected however galore students are already vaccinated successful Oakland Unified but successful the metropolis of Oakland, 54% of 12-to-17-year-olds are afloat vaccinated and 71% person received astatine slightest 1 dose, according to the schoolhouse board’s proposal.