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LOCAL The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Friday, June 19, 2020 5A SCHOOLS ■ Continued from 1A for the foreseeable future,’” he said in the video. “There is no waiting in our back rooms and basements until COVID is over with before we can have school again.” Schofield said between 25% and 45% of families with children attending Hall schools would be unable to go to work if students were not in schools, making continuing school from home “a deal breaker.” He also said the district’s youngest learners, particularly those “that are coming from conditions of poverty,” have lost as much as a year of literacy and numeracy abilities over the last four months, making a return to in-person edu cation a top priority for the district. “I would be the first to say, with 31 years in public educa tion, that our young learners cannot afford to lose a year of literacy and numeracy ability and instruction, ” Schofield said. “And the longer we wait to go back to school, the more that slide is going to continue.” Schofield did acknowledge that some families would be uncomfortable returning to schools and said the district would “do the best we can to walk alongside you and provide you resources to keep the learning process going for your home.” He also said the district’s plans for sanitation, transporta tion and potential requirements for students and faculty to don masks and other PPE were still under consideration, and more information would be forthcoming. Schofield added there was a possibility some buildings may have to be closed during the school year, stating that “what we’re going to have to be, in terms of perhaps above all else, is flexible.” “I wish I had a magic answer, a template on your screen that said here’s what we’re going to do, one, two, three, four, and it’s going to be just perfect,” he said. “There are no per fect answers. But I can tell you one thing: there will be 3,400 adults working until their fingers bleed to provide a positive, encouraging and productive education experience for the students of Hall County.” DACA ■ Continued from 1A alone—to pass much-needed immigration reform. After its second power grab this week, it’s clear that Congress needs to step up and take back its constitutionally granted authority to do its job.” Chief Justice John Rob erts, joined by four liberal colleagues, wrote for the court that the administration did not pursue the end of the program properly. “We do not decide whether DACA or its rescis sion are sound policies,” Roberts wrote. “We address only whether the agency complied with the proce dural requirement that it provide a reasoned explana tion for its action. Here the agency failed to consider the conspicuous issues of whether to retain forbear ance and what if anything to do about the hardship to DACA recipients.” The Department of Home land Security can try again, he wrote. The court’s four conser vative justices dissented. Justice Clarence Thomas, in a dissent joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gor- such, wrote that DACA was illegal from the moment it was created under the Obama administration in 2012. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a separate dissent that he was satisfied that the administration acted appro priately in trying to end the program. DACA covers people who have been in the United States since they were chil dren and are in the country illegally. In some cases, they have no memory of any home other than the U.S. The program grew out of an impasse over a com prehensive immigration bill between Congress and the Obama administration in 2012. President Barack Obama decided to formally protect people from depor tation while also allowing them to work legally in the U.S. But Trump made tough talk on immigration a cen tral part of his campaign and less than eight months after taking office, he announced in September 2017 that he would end DACA. Immigrants, civil rights groups, universities and Democratic-led states quickly sued, and courts put the administration’s plan on hold. The Department of Home land Security has continued to process two-year DACA renewals so that hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients have protections stretching beyond the elec tion and even into 2022. The Supreme Court fight over DACA played out in a kind of legal slow motion. The administration first wanted the justices to hear and decide the case by June 2018. The justices said no. The Justice Department returned to the court later in 2018, but the justices did nothing for more than seven months before agreeing a year ago to hear arguments. Those took place in Novem ber and more than seven months elapsed before the court’s decision. Reporter Nick Watson contribute to this report. a Apartments FOR RENT RPC Partners 2 Bedrm. 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