Students Adjust Summer Plans Amid COVID-19
June 4, 2020
California has enforced the law of social distancing and the stay-at-home orders and as summer nears, camps, college visits and traveling have been shut down. As a result, many summer programs and travel plans have been disrupted due to COVID-19, so causing many Palo Alto High School students are changing their plans. The Paly voice reached out to a few students to see how the virus affected their summer plans.
![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)
