In every Detroit neighborhood, there is a church and there is a school.
Those two anchors of the community united Thursday in a campaign to bring more students and teachers back into classrooms at Detroit Public Schools Community District this fall and to encourage everyone to put fear aside and get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Inside the Liberty Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, faith leadership and education officials issued a call to action to the Detroit community to bring their children back to school for in-person learning and to urge teachers to get vaccinated and return to face-to-face teaching after a school year full of disruptions and mostly online learning.
Detroit schools begin resuming in-person learning on Monday
Beginning Monday, Detroit Public Schools Community District is welcoming students back to the classroom after two months of remote learning.
Posted at 5:36 AM, May 24, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-24 05:36:02-04
Beginning Monday, Detroit Public Schools Community District is welcoming students back to the classroom after two months of remote learning.
The school board voted unanimously last week to allow schools to resume face-to-face instruction, however, due to an agreement with the teacher s union, teachers still have the option to teach remotely until the end of June.
For those opting to head back to the classroom, it s been months since they ve been back â before spring break. In a statement last week, Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti noted that nearly 20,000 families pushed for a face-to-face option during the latest district-wide survey.
Detroit public schools offering $15K pay incentive for Exceptional Student Education teachers
Elizabeth Ruiz
and last updated 2021-05-24 07:21:24-04
DETROIT (WXYZ) â The Detroit Public Schools Community District is offering a reoccurring pay incentive of $15,000 for select Exceptional Student Education teachers, beginning in the 2021-2022 school year.
The district said the bonus aims to fill the remaining teacher vacancies in DPSCD, which have steadily declined from nearly 300 in fall 2017 to 38 this spring.
Of the vacancies in the district, 80% are in ESE positions.
The following current district employed teachers and those who would be newly recruited and hold active endorsement will be eligible:
In-person classes in Detroit schools resume Monday under board plan
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In-person learning resumes Monday at Detroit Public Schools Community District after school officials approved the use of a safety matrix to decide whether pauses on face-to-face learning at individual schools and districtwide are necessary.
Under a plan approved by the school board on Tuesday, data now considered for
future school closures will include vaccination rates in the region, local testing data from weekly saliva testing in district locations and infection rates in the city and Metro Detroit.
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The Detroit Public Schools Community District is offering a one-time $500 incentive to encourage educators and other eligible staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The incentive, which applies to those who already have been vaccinated or plan to be by June 30, 2021, also includes up to 16 hours of sick leave to account for possible vaccine side effects.
“This incentive is a way to promote the greatest protections to all employees as we work to minimize the threat of COVID-19 while respecting an individual’s choice not to vaccinate,” Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said in a statement.