Superintendent Randy Trani feels like the district has been successful in offering in-person public education during the coronavirus pandemic, he said during an hour-long interview last week.
MESA, Ariz., Jan 12, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) Edupoint® Educational Systems, creator of the industry-leading Synergy® Education Platform for student information and learning management, awarded technology grants to six client districts as part of the inaugural Synergy Achievement Awards in November. The recipients were selected based on the impact of their nominated initiatives and announced at the company’s Virtual Week event in November.
The awards program attracted nominations from Edupoint partner districts of all sizes across the country. Districts were invited to submit any number of nominations in three categories: Process Improvement, Student Outcomes, and Communication & Collaboration.
District nominations spanned a wide range of achievements, with several related to pandemic response. One rural district was able to quickly transition to asynchronous distance learning for alternative education students in order to prevent an anticipated 80% loss of enrollment dur
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I am grateful we still have local journalism, but I was shocked and alarmed at the headline, âSchool District Curtails COVID-19.â There is zero evidence that keeping schools open is reducing the number of people infected with COVID-19. While I appreciate Dr. Traniâs work to keep schools open to satisfy our potentially misguided local population and school board, his analysis of cases is misleading and holds no statistical validity. First, cases in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) are self-reported by staff and parents. There has been no study to find out if the number being self-reported reflect the reality of the number of cases. Second, Dr. Trani is making a false comparison between the numbers of infected in the community and within the school. Children are much less likely to become infected or exhibit symptoms. There may be students in the school district who are asymptomatic, thus creating a potential threat to vulnerable members of the schoo