By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Transportation and campus security are among the priorities for which Grant County schools will be requesting capital funds in this month’s session of the New Mexico Legislature. The superintendents of the Silver and Cobre school districts, as well as Aldo Leopold Charter School’s administrator, outlined their requests before District 39 state Rep. Luis Terrazas, a Republican from Santa Clara, and District 28 state Sen. …
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By The Daily Press Staff
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Grant County and its schools but fortunately, a positive case in the Cobre School District didn’t force the closure of a building, school board members learned at their regular meeting held virtually Monday evening.
“We did have one positive student case at one of our schools last week, which resulted in 22 students having to quarantine,” said Joyce Barela, school improvement coordinator for the district. “So those students, this week and next week, they will be learning remotely.”
According to Barela, the New Mexico Public Education Department is preparing to offer voluntary student school-based surveillance testing for COVID-19, which will be made available to parents on an opt-in basis. Many of the details of the effort are still being worked out at the state level, however.
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