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Tired of waiting, Fargo area teachers go hunting for COVID-19 vaccine shots
Jennifer Mastrud, president of the Fargo teachers union, said educators have been frustrated with the vaccine rollout. She knows teachers who took a day off work to travel to Thrifty White pharmacies to receive their first vaccine doses. Written By: C.S. Hagen | ×
Kim Krogstad with Clay County Public Health gives a Moorhead Area Public Schools teacher the COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 28 in Moorhead. Alyssa Goelzer / The Forum
FARGO Many teachers across North Dakota are rolling up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccine shots, but in Fargo and West Fargo educators are still wondering when their turn will come, with some deciding to seek out the vaccine on their own.
Population boom: West Fargo School enrollment growth not slowing down anytime soon
Consultant predicts the district will have a total of about 13,287 students in grades kindergarten through 12 by the 2025-26 school year. Written By: Wendy Reuer | ×
Students eat lunch at Liberty Middle School in West Fargo, N.D. Carrie Snyder / The Pioneer
WEST FARGO The student population boom of West Fargo Public Schools likely won t be slowing down anytime soon.
At the West Fargo School Board s last meeting, its consultant, RSP Associates, which projected in 2015 that the district would continue to grow by 300 to 500 students every year through the next 10 years, said that growth rate is likely to continue and could even increase dramatically in Horace as well as north of Interstate 94 if the F-M diversion is completed.
With limited testing and incomplete data, questions linger over COVID-19 in schools
Experts lack data on how the coronavirus is moving among K-12 students back in school for in-person instruction. Written By: C.S. Hagen | ×
Patrons walk in for free COVID-19 testing at the former Thomas Edison school at 1110 S. 14th St. in Moorhead. David Samson / The Forum
FARGO Amongst all the data and research on COVID-19, there s still the question of how much the coronavirus is spreading in schools now that many students are back in crowded classrooms, hallways and cafeterias.
No one seems to have a clear answer yet, but incomplete data, including studies from Brown University, reports by JAMA Pediatrics, and most recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggest school infection rates are lower than community spread and that the benefits of in-person education outweigh the pandemic dangers.