Updated: Friday, December 18, 2020 - 2:44pm
Two special education teachers from the Tempe Union High School District have been hospitalized due to COVID-19 and other staffers are sick or quarantined, the district said in a Thursday letter to families. The district called these cases unintended consequences of its efforts to provide in-person special education services to families that felt comfortable sending their students to school.
The two teachers were hospitalized due to COVID-19 this past week. In addition, a student services coordinator is very sick from COVID-19, and seven classroom aides are quarantined because a special education student that was positive came to school for in-person instruction, the district said in a statement.