Students and staff in Palo Alto Unified’s Futures program sit at socially distanced tables in a classroom at Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto on Sept. 11. Photo by Magali Gauthier.

Parents of students at MPS facing lead contamination issues are growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of communication and clear timeline for when their children's schools will reopen.

Organizers decried what they said was a lack of input from parents on statewide reopening plans. School administrators, teachers’ unions, state officials and public health authorities are providing ...

and high-school parents intend to send their child back to school. Teachers and administrators intent on delaying a full reopening are citing those numbers to suggest that many parents are still ...