Twelve schools in Oakland were forced to close because of Friday's teacher's 'sickout' over COVID safety concerns amid the omicron surge.
By now, many teachers already knew that the district had agreed to extend their COVID leave and to purchase better masks.
"With regard to KN95 masks, we are delivering KN95 masks to all of our schools yesterday and today. They will be available to all of our staff and we have ordered KN95s for our students," said Oakland Unified School District Spokesperson, John Sasaki.Still, teachers say there are other demands to be negotiated.
"Also, that we have a clear emergency protocol if we have more teachers out than we can manage and that we have clear communication when a student and staff member gets COVID," expressed teacher Chela Delgado. Other teachers want mandatory testing for all students. Olivia Udovic says it's up to her to make sure families sign their kids up for testing.
"We have to do the leg work of getting all our families to sign up for that. I have to put in a lot of effort to get my class pretty much all sign for it," said Udociv
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