| (Oct. 31, 2020, 7:25 a.m.) -- On Oct. 30, LBUSD notified parents of students using the Mark Twain Elementary School (5021 E Centralia St.) Child Development Center (CDC) that it "recently received information about at least one confirmed case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)" and "your child may have had exposure to this case on October 28th 2020 which means your child may have been within 6 feet of the infected person for more than 15 minutes."
The notification, from CDC Program Coordinator Reshon Moutra, states that "Because of this exposure, your child should quarantine at home for 14 days...COVID-19 testing is NOT required for your child to return to school after 14 days of quarantine are over. If no symptoms have developed during the quarantine period, your child may return to the school site on November 12th, 2020. As LBUSD's COVID Dashboard, linked on LBUSD website's front page via this link, lets parents, students and taxpayers access data for individual LBUSD schools, or all LBUSD schools (with and without administration non-school employees.)
LBUSD's COVID19 dashboard is similar to those webposted by the Irvine Unified School District and Los Alamitos Unified School District.
Prior to Twain, parents of children in the Burroughs Head Start program, the Henry Kid's Club [although Kid's Club not directly involved], and LBUSD's Dooley Day Care (Child Development) Center received LBUSD notices of possible COVID19 exposure. Previous COVID-19 infections prompted notifications to parents at Garfield Child Development Center (Sept; 1), Bixby Kids Club (Sept. 18), Webster Child Development Center (Sept. 23), Edison Head Start (Sept. 24), the Jordan Baseball Program (Sept. 28) and Willard Child Development Center
Apart from its CDC's and limited daycare operations, LBUSD schools remain closed for in-person instruction.
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In an Oct. 23 message to parents districtwide (sent in text and video form), LBUSD Superintendent Dr. Jill Baker noted that LBUSD has been offering preschool and childcare services at various loactions ("focusing on students with special needs, beginning with various assessments and therapies") and said the district's "next phase" will include "more in-person instruction for students who have special needs, followed by a plan to begin bringing back young learners."
[Sup't Baker statement] Health data in Los Angeles County will guide the pace at which LBUSD is able to return students to school buildings. When L.A. County moves into the less restrictive red tier, the pace of students’ return to school can increase. Until then, LBUSD can only return students to in-person instruction via a narrowly defined waiver process, and the school district continues to explore this option. Dr. Baker said LBUSD "will continue to make instructional adjustments based upon feedback from students, families and staff."
Socially-networked parents on the Reopen Long Beach Schools Facebook page (roughly 1,900 members) continue to press LBUSD's administration and elected school board to re-open schools for in-classroom instruction. Dispatches on the group's Facebook page frequently note the small percentages of COVID=19 affected staff and students.
A separate Facebook group, Parents for Teachers LBUSD (6,600 members, mainly teachers) stresses the highly contagious nature of the virus, its potential to grow exponentially and urges caution to protect teachers and students (and their families) from becoming infected and passing the virus to others.
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