After a year of meeting virtually, the Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) Board of Education held its first in-person regular meeting on March 9 at the Jon Cherney Lecture Hall at Beverly Hills High School (BHHS). The meeting took place the same week that elementary students returned to in-person instruction at Hawthorne and Horace Mann Elementary Schools. At Hawthorne, there are currently 409 students enrolled in hybrid learning, 110 students enrolled in virtual learning and 45 students are in the Independent Learning Center (ILC). At Horace Mann, 389 students are enrolled in hybrid learning, 166 students remained in virtual learning and 57 students are in the ILC. BHUSD Superintendent Dr. Michael Bregy began his report on Tuesday by congratulating staff on a momentous week, with more to come on the horizon. “Today we have moved from 7.2 as an adjusted case rate to 5.2. So, our next step is looking at reopening our middle school and high school,” he said.
Under state guidance, counties with an adjusted case rate of 25 or fewer cases per 100,000 residents are eligible to reopen elementary school. For middle and high school campuses to reopen, the adjusted case rate must fall to seven cases or below per 100,000 – a threshold that the County met this week.
