The Santa Clara County Office environment of Schooling and the county’s Community Overall health Office concur that keeping universities open up and in course whole-time is essential in this period of COVID-19.

Officers claimed that university districts in the county could no for a longer time present distant or virtual studying in lieu of in-particular person instruction, stating that students learn very best when they are amongst their peers and have entry to faculty assets.

“Holding our pupils, team, and people safe remains our top precedence,” Dr. Mary Ann Dewan, county educational institutions superintendent, stated. “We are doing work together with our college districts to guard in-individual learning and practice the appropriate basic safety protocols.”

“The great information is that the situations we are seeing from Omicron are milder than earlier COVID cases, claimed Dr. Sara Cody, the county’s community wellbeing director. “We have also learned that we need to have to discover approaches to coexist and dwell with COVID. We have acquired a large amount from the former two decades.”

Cody and Dewan stated it is Santa Clara County’s aim to ensure that students obtain a reliable, in-particular person instruction.