“We need to address accommodations for our employees before we can discuss anything,” she said. School Board member Karen Brill echoed those concerns, saying uncertainty about accommodations for high-risk employees could make a smooth reopening impossible. “I want to at least make sure they’re operationally ready to go.” “I just have concerns about the operations effectiveness of the school district,” Kerner said. Last week the teachers union blasted district leaders for purportedly misleading high-risk teachers about the possibility of working from home when classrooms reopen, leading the district to hastily organize a school board meeting Wednesday. More: ‘Nothing more than a ruse’: Union blasts schools chief over waivers for high-risk teachers Kerner said Monday that he has growing concerns about the district’s readiness to reopen in just two weeks. The county’s proposal seemed intended, in part, to disentangle the county government from the school board’s reopening decision.Ĭounty commissioners have repeatedly criticized the school board for tying their reopening plans to the county’s broader plans for reopening businesses and community institutions.ĭoing so, commissioners said, has complicated their efforts to gradually reopen more businesses, since reopening those businesses now triggers the reopening of the county’s public schools. More: Students, teachers struggle to log on for PBC public schools' 1st day of online classes 'At that time, parents will still have a choice whether to continue in distance learning or send their children back to in-person instruction.'īut County Mayor Dave Kerner said multiple school board members have indicated they would be “very receptive” to a postponement if feasible. 'The document calls for the reopening of campuses, and in-person instruction, one week after Palm Beach County moves from Phase 1 to Phase 2,' the district said in a statement. Her request came the same day that technical issues mired the start of online classes in the district’s roughly 180 schools, underscoring the complexities of virtual schooling.ĭistrict leaders signaled Monday that they were unlikely to take up Baker's proposal, saying in a statement that their reopening plan 'remains the same.'

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