Fill out the form to send our letter to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

Judge Clay Jenkins;

I applaud your leadership during this pandemic that has derailed our society and exacerbated many of our city’s underlying conditions including class divisions and racial disparity. Thank you for all you have done so far to keep our children, our educators, and our county as safe as possible during these difficult times.

I am writing to you to ask that you continue to help us keep our community safe by extending the public health order to keep school buildings closed to all but essential personnel. We ask that you keep this public health order in place until Dallas County has 14 consecutive days of dropping COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, a positivity rate of less than 5%, and a transmission rate of less than 1%.

Schools are inherently designed to be contained, social environments. Our buildings are old and are often overcrowded and lacking in proper ventilation.

Sadly, our schools were not fully funded by the TEA last spring, and had to depend on CARES funds to continue operations, and yet our schools are diverting significant resources to the doomed mission of reopening schools during an out-of-control pandemic.

By extending the health order, you will ensure that schools don’t become the next source of major community spread of a virus we have yet to contain.

Thank you once again for you guidance and leadership,

[Your Name]