CA staffing shortage delays ambitious program to extend school day and year – The Vacaville Reporter

By John Fensterwald, EdSource

One of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s and the Legislature’s most ambitious and expensive education programs — the extension of the school day and of the school year for elementary school students — won’t happen this year, at least in most districts.

And that’s now OK with the Legislature and the Newsom administration, which had funded it to start right away.

School districts and charter schools say they are struggling to find enough teachers, substitute teachers, bus drivers and Covid contact tracers to fill existing and new pandemic-related jobs, so adding before- and after-school positions is unfeasible, they say.

Source: California staffing shortage delays ambitious program to extend school day and year – The Vacaville Reporter

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