Sutter

Also in jeopardy is up to $50 million in funding apiece for a Port of San Francisco coastal resilience project, a flood protection project for the Menlo Park area, a flood adaptation project in Oakland and Alameda, a Sutter Bypass levee project in the Central Valley, for water supply resiliency for the city of Riverbank in Stanislaus County, and for infrastructure resiliency for the city of Pacifica in San Mateo County.

Tom Reusser, Sutter County Schools’ superintendent, said such virtual schools were largely to blame for the county’s childhood immunization rate, which, at 73%, is the state’s lowest.

Public health officials in Sutter County also attributed their decline in vaccination rates to a “small number of charter schools and independent study students.”

Feather River, for example, serves students in Sutter, Butte, Yuba, Placer, Sacramento, Yolo and Colusa counties, according to the school’s website.

In a Q&A posted on its website, Feather River, the school in Sutter County, notes that because the school is an “independent study program with no classroom-based instruction,” immunizations are not required.