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One of the big ones is that the employers need to provide PPE and sanitation to all employees. This isn’t quite such a big deal to some things, but it’s a major roadblock to schools reopening. For student safety and staff safety they are requiring not only social distancing to stay in effect, but also each student and teacher to have a mask. Now, in California with its “free public education” clause that means the districts have to provide not only the sanitation aspect, but also masks for every student and teacher. Say there are 5000 kids/employees in a district. Now add on additional costs to clean and handwash/sanitize, but also masks per student per day. If you can even get them now, which is difficult, at say 50 cents a day per student x 180 days is a half a million dollars just for masks and that 50 cents a piece right now is really optimistic. My superintendent was thinking better than a million all things considered. With a potential 20% cut to education she’s wondering how to do anything but distance learning. For everyone to get back going it’s going to take some really good and creative leadership to do it.Thank you