Dist. 229 school board pauses in-person learning over holiday break
Star Courier
The Kewanee District 229 board of education approved for early January a schedule of remote learning in response to COVID-19.
Students will not return immediately after winter break, the board decided during at last week s December meeting. Instead, they will be on a remote-learning schedule Jan. 4 to Jan. 8.
The Illinois State Board of Education allows schools to enact what it calls an “adaptive pause” closing a school to in-person instruction as a COVID-19 safety protocol.
In this case, delaying a return to the classroom provides additional time to assess student and teacher health before entering the general school population.
Teutopolis School Board to Consider Changing Guidelines for Electing Board Members Published on December 14 2020 8:09 pm Last Updated on December 15 2020 7:58 am Written by Greg Sapp
Teutopolis school board members may seek voter approval to change the guidelines for electing people to the Board.
Teutopolis Superintendent Matt Sturgeon said the current requirement is that no more than three members can live in the same township. Sturgeon, though, said there is an option to seek voter approval for at-large board member elections. In other words, the leading vote-getters would be elected to however many seats are available, regardless of where in the school district they reside.