Patch.com
By Eric He
SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — State Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park) is calling for all teachers and school staff in Bay Area school districts to be vaccinated before the first day of school or be tested regularly.
In an interview with Patch on Tuesday after holding a news briefing in East Palo Alto, Becker said: "If we lose another year of in-person learning, that's on us as adults."
"It's really incumbent on us to make every effort to put kids first and to really inspire confidence in the schools to make them as safe as possible — really to build a wall of protection and security around them," Becker told Patch. "The best way to do that is make sure all the adults that they're going to come in contact with in school are vaccinated. We know that most of them are. Let's get to 100 percent."