Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022

Piedmont Unified School District approved in open session, the revision of Administrative Regulation 5141.31 to remove the COVID-19 vaccination requirement. There is no longer any requirement that Piedmont USD students receive the vaccination to attend class in person.

Piedmont School Board posted:

Approved Revised Administrative Regulation 5141.31 – Immunizations – Throughout the pandemic, the District’s goal remains to keep schools and the community as safe as possible for in-person instruction. The District believes that students benefit exponentially more from an in-person educational experience than an Independent Study Program. Because of this, and our incredibly high vaccination rates, the Superintendent recommended that the Board of Education remove COVID-19 from Board Policy and Administrative Regulation 5141.31 until the California Department of Public Health and the State of California adds it to the list of required immunizations as found in Health and Safety Code and/or by Executive Order of the Governor. At this time, the District finds no educational value in transferring vaccine-hesitant students into an Independent Study program with remarkably high vaccination rate across all campuses. The District reached its goal of keeping our schools and community as safe as possible with a vaccination rate of 98% and is extremely proud of the efforts of our families and students to keep our schools open for in-person learning.

This is a big victory, in addition to our court win against Piedmont. This also has led to a victory in Oakland Unified.

Today we got word that Oakland followed Piedmont Unified in pushing back the COVID 19 vaccine mandate.

The school board on Wednesday voted to extend the deadline for its student vaccine requirement, which was previously scheduled to take effect on Jan. 31, to Aug. 1. After that, any unvaccinated student who was 12 or older as of Dec. 1, 2021 and does not have a medical or personal belief exemption will be offered a chance to transfer to OUSD’s Sojourner Truth Independent Study school, and given information about the vaccine and how to get the shot. After multiple warnings, if a student chooses not to go to Sojourner Truth, they’ll be unenrolled from the district.

Oakland Unified pushes back vaccine mandate to the fall semester

School board members on Wednesday night voted to push back the deadline to Aug. 1, Oakland Unified spokesman John Sasaki said. As of Jan. 19, only about 70% of students 12 and older had verified their vaccination status, according to the resolution.

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