BY AGUEDA PACHECO FLORES / CROSSCUT
Originally published Feb. 3, 2021 on Crosscut.com
Alexandra Olin needs her 12-year-old son to go back to school. On the phone, Olin sounds exasperated, tired and fed up as she talks through her experience this past year.
Besides online learning being extremely sedentary, Olin says, children can’t be expected to sit online for hours and have perfect impulse control. She discovered her son, for example, was often “multitasking” last fall, with a video game open on one window and his remote class session open on another.
She has talked to her son about this and hopes the practice has stopped, but even parents in the same space have only so much control over their teens and preteens.
Washington schools officials announce plan to vaccinate teachers
‘Get Ready’ would get shots to 80 percent of staff
Published: January 29, 2021, 3:45pm
Share: Mass vaccinations for COVID-19 were held by appointment at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds on Tuesday morning, January 26, 2021. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, announced Friday what they’re calling a bold plan to help vaccinate all Washington school teachers and staff once the state advances into the next COVID-19 vaccination phase.
The “Get Ready” plan calls for up to 20 vaccination sites along the Interstate 5 corridor and in Spokane, capable of offering vaccines for up to 80 percent of public and private school employees statewide.
Plan underway to provide COVID-19 vaccine to Washington state teachers
The plan from Washington OSPI and Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 14 to 20 COVID-19 vaccination locations along the I-5 corridor and in Spokane. Author: KREM Staff, KING 5 Staff Published: 6:14 PM PST January 28, 2021 Updated: 6:52 PM PST January 29, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash A plan in the works aims to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to teachers and school staff throughout Washington state.
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and Kaiser Permanente are partnering to get vaccines to educators. Their Get Ready plan is designed to be launch-ready when personnel are eligible in Washington, and will focus on a safe return to school and commitment to fairness, equity and consistency of vaccine distribution.
Plan underway to provide COVID-19 vaccine to Washington state teachers
A plan in the works aims to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to teachers and school staff throughout Washington state. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 8:44 PM PST January 29, 2021
OLYMPIA, Wash. There s a plan in the works to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to teachers and school staff throughout Washington state.
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and Kaiser Permanente Washington are partnering to get vaccines to educators.
The plan will include 14-20 vaccination sites along the I-5 corridor and Spokane area. These will be capable of offering vaccination to as much as 80% of school employees, according to information released Friday.
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January 29, 2021 10:16 AM Melissa Luck
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OLYMPIA, Wash – As more school districts across the state send students back to class for in-person learning, there’s now a way to track which districts are back in school and in what capacity.
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has a dashboard that tracks which schools are back in class and which specific student groups are learning in person.
The dashboard will update weekly, but the last report listed was data from the week of January 18th.
Of the districts listed, it shows that 120 of them have elementary school students learning in-person, at least partially. Just under two percent of districts have elementary school students learning completely remotely.