Gov. Kate Brown and state schools chief Colt Gill have been adamant that Oregon schools will open for full-time in-person learning this fall, even as some parents fret that the rise of the delta variant and widespread vaccine refusal may make that impossible.
On Tuesday, however, Brown acknowledged for the first time that the state’s once seemingly iron-clad commitment to keeping all its students in school five days per week might have some give as the highly transmissible delta variant has led to a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths, particularly in lightly vaccinated parts of the state.