School districts will be able to bring back to school small groups of students with disabilities and others with "acute" needs for face-to-face instruction, Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond announced Friday. The California Department of Public Health will provide details for districts to follow, perhaps next week. All districts will be able to bring small groups of students on campus, including those whose schools cannot currently open because they're in counties on the state's watch list for high rates of coronavirus infection, hospitalizations and other criteria, Darling-Hammond said. The state will move forward with this policy, Newsom said, out of the "recognition that there are kids that will never" be able to adjust to learning online "no matter what kind of support we provide, even if we individualize it." Many special education students have suffered during distance learning: students with autism, learning disabilities and emotional conditions as well as those who normally would receive in-person occupational and physical therapy. But large numbers of homeless and migrant students and students in foster care also have been greatly affected. Some districts have expressed a desire to open up schools to these students, and a few, including Palo Alto Unified, had planned to move ahead. But teachers unions have rejected those plans during negotiations over their working conditions, saying they expose teachers to unsafe conditions. Discussions ended in mid-August, when Newsom and the California Department of Public Health put most of the state's counties, encompassing more than 90 percent of the state's students, on a monitoring list. Residents on the upper portion of Morgan Territory Road were being advised to prepare to evacuate due to fires in...

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