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Peace Wapiti Public School Division (PWPSD) Senior Administration met on Wednesday to begin the process of transitioning schools to remote learning following the announcement from the province that all Kindergarten to Grade 12 students will move to at-home remote learning effective Friday morning, May 7, returning to in-school learning on Tuesday, May 25 following the Victoria Day holiday.
Additional information, provided on Wednesday during a province-wide virtual question and answer session with the Deputy Minister of Education, was shared with PWPSD Principals and Assistant Principals.
PWPSD Remote Learning Plan:
The province has approved a temporary operational shift to remote learning in response to the number of isolating students and staff, which impacts schools’ ability to offer adequate in-person learning. This two-week shift to remote learning will help ensure schools can finish the 2021-22 school year strongly and in
LEROY â Pine River Area Schools is going virtual for the rest of the week after the entire student body was sent home late Tuesday morning after a sewer back up at the junior high/high school facility.
Pine River Superintendent Matt Lukshaitis said Tuesday afternoon via a release that the district was initiating its Snow Day Learning per the 2020-2021 Remote Learning Plan, which can be found at www.pineriver.org. School is canceled for the rest of the week. The sewer back up reported earlier that sent our students, grades K-12, home at 11:30 a.m. (Tuesday), will take three to four days to repair, at a minimum,â he said. The weather will hopefully cooperate and not send us too much rain so we can repair this issue in a timely manner. Weâre hoping to be back in school next Monday, May 3.
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ADRIAN Changes to the Adrian Public Schools student handbook might be coming in the near future after the district’s board of education listened to a presentation from a law firm at its virtual meeting Monday.
An attorney from Thrun Law Firm of East Lansing told the board that some of its current policies in the handbook might not be up to date with state regulations.
Specifically, Raymond Davis pointed out that the handbook’s policies on student discipline and sexual harassment both could be updated.
Davis said Adrian’s current penalty for a student s failure to adhere to the district’s sexual harassment policy is a three- to five-day suspension. Meanwhile, legislation stemming from Title IX a federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in a school or other federally funded education program is more severe than three to five days.
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – Branch County school districts are planning no changes following Governor Whitmer request on Friday for students in the ninth through 12th to go to virtual learning over the next two weeks.
Whitmer asked school districts around the state to make the move on a voluntary basis in an effort to slow the latest surge of COVID-19 cases in the state.
Local officials took to social media to announce their decisions. Bronson Community Schools said they will continue to operate with in-person learning following spring break on Monday, April 12. “Our studentsâ and staff safety remain a priority, and should we need to move to virtual learning due to a rise in COVID-19 incidents, we will.”
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