More Concord schools going remote as staff and students test positive for COVID-19
The Christa McAuliffe School is seen in Concord on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff) Elizabeth Frantz
Published: 12/15/2020 3:00:44 PM
Christa McAuliffe School and the Concord Regional Technical Center are both pivoting to remote learning on Thursday, due to impact of community transmission of COVID-19., interim Superintendent Kathleen Murphy announced Tuesday.
The decision was based on availability of staff and number of students in quarantine. The schools will be remote until Jan. 19.
At Christa McAuliffe School, one staff member tested positive for COVID-19. The staff member was at work on Monday.
UpdatedTue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:32 pm ET
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Quarantined educators and students, due to an increase of coronavirus cases in Concord and New Hampshire, are causing schools to move to fully remote learning. (Tony Schinella/Patch)
CONCORD, NH Nearly all of Concord School District students will be moved to remote learning this week, according to Kathleen Murphy, the district s interim school superintendent.
The decision was made Tuesday to move the remaining schools in the SAU 8 district to remote learning due to the number of quarantined teachers, administrators, and students, and the lack of education staffing to teach children in the classroom, she said. Broken Ground Elementary School will move to remote learning on Wednesday while Christa McAuliffe Elementary School will change learning models Thursday. Concord Regional Technical Center students will also move to remote Thursday.
School superintendents test positive for COVID
Graduating senior Richard Demmons receives his diploma during Franklin High School graduation on Friday evening, June 12, 2020. ANN GEHAN
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Published: 12/11/2020 3:18:09 PM
Franklin schools are in remote learning this week, after the district superintendent tested positive for COVID-19.
Superintendent Dan LeGallo announced his own positive case in a letter to the school community on Tuesday. LeGallo wrote that he took a COVID test on Saturday evening, after experiencing a minor sore throat.
“The contact tracing will take some time because of my presence in all three schools, and will lead to a short-term closure of the SAU,” LeGallo wrote.