SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) - The symbols for Saugatuck Public Schools moving forward has been set. During the Monday night (Aug. 16, 2021) monthly Boa.
Life after COVID: What will school look like post-pandemic?
Local education leaders discuss what long-term affects COVID-19 could have on K-12 education.
Mitchell Boatman, The Holland Sentinel
Published
11:10 am UTC Apr. 8, 2021
The past year of education has been a constant wave of change, adjustments and uncertainty. Students were thrust into remote learning to close the 2019-20 school year due to COVID-19, before having to decide whether or not to return for the 2020-21 school year.
Schools have had to ramp up sanitization efforts in classrooms and buses, provide additional technology for students and find new ways to keep them connected during periods of remote learning.
SAUGATUCK Renovations approved in a 2020 bond effort are set to begin soon for Saugatuck Public Schools.
Voters approved a 1.6 mill, $35.6 million bond proposal March 10, 2020, to provide renovations at Douglas Elementary School and Saugatuck Middle/High School.
The first project to get underway will be renovations at DES, which are scheduled to begin April 2, when the district begins spring break.
Bids for that project were approved by the SPS Board of Education during its Feb. 1 work session meeting for $7.2 million in construction costs.
There were 110 bids submitted for the project across the 27 different bid categories, board member Eric Birkholz said during the Feb. 1 meeting.
DOUGLAS — Saugatuck Public Schools, the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland and the Rotary Club of Saugatuck-Douglas have partnered to provide after school programming to students at Douglas Elementary School.The partnership has been in the making since 2019 and in-person programming was able to begin the week of Jan. 25."Our first on-site programming happened this week," said Craig Spoelhof, executive director of B&GC of Greater Holland."We’re bringing some of the same programming