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NEW UPDATES

• COVID-19 Pandemic Leave Scenarios Letter from Human Resources - Information regarding leave types available to employees and reporting requirements.

• AB685 and Requirements for Employee Notifications Regarding Potential Exposures - Information regarding the new law requiring direct notifications of COVID-19 exposures to employees, how and when.
• Current Positive Case Numbers Reported to TVUSD Within Last 14 Days - Chart is published publicly on our COVID-19 website.

Topic Highlights:

• The district is not required to test employees until we can return to on-campus learning.
• County resource links are provided for personal testing.

The District's requirements to test employees goes into effect once we are legally allowed to return to on-campus learning.

There are currently many free testing options, including through the Riverside County Department of Public Health https://gettested.ruhealth.org/home, your healthcare provider, and many drug stores and private labs that may bill your insurance.

Additionally, the City of Temecula maintains a full list of available COVID testing resources. We encourage you to visit their page for available options. https://temeculaca.gov/1384/Local-COVID-19-Testing-Sites.

The City of Murrieta has also posted resources here.

Topic Highlights:

• EL hubs are targeted to reopen on January 19, 2021.
• All other hubs are targeted to reopen no sooner than January 25, 2021.
• All reopenings are dependent upon local case rates and indicators.

We want to update you regarding TVUSD's special education learning centers and general education support hubs. We have been monitoring our county and district positive case rate numbers to determine the feasibility of reopening our hubs safely. Unfortunately, due to the steady increases, we are not anticipating reopening TVUSD general ed or special ed support hubs sooner than January 25, 2021.

The only exception is our EL hubs. We are currently targeting January 19, 2021, to reopen our EL hubs, if possible, due to the significant loss of learning these students are experiencing with no connectivity access in their homes.

We will continue to monitor and evaluate weekly for any potential change to our plans. Should we be able to open a hub sooner, we will provide an update. This update is also being shared with TVUSD families today.

Topic Highlights:

• TVUSD is not legally able to open - we remain in the purple tier.
• Local cases and indicators continue to increase.
• The earliest date for reopening remains January 25, 2021.
• Campuses, processes, and protocols are in place.
• The Governor has issued a new plan; details are still being evaluated.
  
• The elementary waiver is awaiting county approval; TVUSD is proceeding with elementary staff assignment notifications in preparation for waiver approval.

Riverside County remains in the most restrictive purple tier. This means that, under current guidelines, we cannot legally open schools for in-person instruction until our county moves back to the red tier. We continue to plan and move forward for TK-12 grades by preparing school campuses to return to in-person hybrid instruction models within the red tier. Any return is contingent upon Riverside County's status; however, our campuses, protocols, and processes are established and ready. Before the winter break, we shared that, based on expected surges in COVID-19 positive cases, TVUSD would not be looking at reopening sooner than January 25, 2021. This timeline and associated plans remain in place, and we continue to watch and evaluate local indicators.

Also, last week, the Governor announced a new plan for reopening schools. A return under his new plan is predicated on our local county having fewer than 28 positive coronavirus cases per 100,000, required employee and student testing, and the development of a new COVID-19 Safety Plan. However, this is contingent on the County achieving an adjusted positivity rate of 28 or less per 100,000. This plan is still not formally approved; it will be put for a vote within the Legislature on Monday, January 11th. A summary of the plan is available here.

Elementary School Waiver

TVUSD's waiver for TK-5 grades to operate within the purple tier is on file with RivCoPH. They have advised that they are currently on-hold with approvals until case positivity rates begin to decline. To ensure we are ready should our waiver be approved, elementary administrators are continuing to contact families and confirm families' preferences regarding hybrid, flex, and online learning models in alignment with staffing. Preliminary staffing assignments will be shared with elementary staff beginning next week.