FUHSD students expected to being hybrid learning model after spring break, district says

Fallbrook Union High School District students are expected to return to in-person classes in a hybrid format after spring break, the district said late Wednesday.

FUHSD Superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez said in a letter to parents and guardians that the district reached a tentative agreement to add an addendum on COVID-19 protocols to the existing agreement between FUHSD and the Fallbrook High School Teachers Association.

The addendum is still pending ratification by teachers’ union members; should that happen, the district's board of trustees will meet Monday, March 29, to approve the addendum, Garza-Gonzalez said, and hybrid learning will be able to begin in the expected timeframe. FUHSD returns from spring break on April 5, but Garza-Gonzalez could not say whether that would be the actual start date.

"Nothing can be shared until the agreement is ratified," she said in an email.

Families will still have the option to keep their children in all-online learning if they wish; Garza-Gonzalez asked parents and guardians of FUHSD students to fill out a learning model preference survey, available here, to decide whether or not to transition their students into hybrid learning.

The superintendent said in her letter that she will have more information for families next week.