Our #RandomThoughts Corner

 As a new quarter dawns, We hereby present the following On the State of the War on COVID here in our home state of California as we view the headline as good news to begin our new quarterly #RandomThoughts series here : California moves toward getting rid of reopening tier system By Ali Tadayon,  EdSource If California maintains sufficient vaccine supply and hospitalization rates continue to drop, the state will end the tier system on June 15. Read more How California high schools plan to pull off ‘normal’ graduations By John Fensterwald,  EdSource Ceremonies will be outside, probably in shifts, on a sports field with bleachers, or like Fresno and Natomas, in a big pavilion and minor league ballpark. Read more Our picks from other sources In massive reopening effort at 1,400 L.A. public schools, safety is the priority By Howard Blume,  Los Angeles Times,   April 5 Thousands of Fresno Unified students head back to classrooms By Isabel Sophia Dieppa,  Fresno Bee,   April 5 Did you get f