Updated: 10:51 AM EST Mar 3, 2021 Carroll County Public Schools are proceeding to prepare schools for four-day per week in-person learning.The district said in a letter to parents and guardians that the Maryland State Department of Education notified the district that its revised plan doesn t need to be submitted for approval, so the district is moving forward. Elementary school students will return to school in person, four days a week, on March 15.Middle and high school students will return to school in person, four days a week, on March 22.Full virtual learning will remain an option for those who choose to do so.The Board of Education approved two asynchronous learning days at both the elementary and secondary level to further support staff in preparing our schools and classrooms.Elementary school students will receive asynchronous learning assignments on March 11 and 12. (This includes all levels at Carroll Springs School.)Middle school and high school students will re
Billboard in California Urges Schools to Reopen
ROHNERT PARK, Calif. A message on an electronic billboard in the San Francisco Bay Area is calling for the reopening of schools in Sonoma County.
A group of North Bay parents organized a GoFundMe campaign to fund the billboard message, which is displayed next to Highway 101 in the city of Rohnert Park.
The billboard reads: “Missing All CA Students. Last Seen: 3/13 2020. Reward: Their Future. #OpenSonomaCountySchoolsNow.”
The group of parents said they want to be a voice for the children.
“We have a lot of parents that are frustrated and getting more angry, that never would be, because this situation is getting to be ridiculous,” Andrea Quartarolo, the organizer behind the billboard message, told The Epoch Times.
State school officials are among those keeping a close watch on the COVID-19 numbers, which is helping them to make their case for bringing more students back into the classroom.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||Maryland State schools Superintendent Dr. Karen Salmon visited Baltimore City s Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School, which has small groups of students learning in person. She accepted an invitation from district CEO Sonja Santelises to visit the school as districts like Baltimore are preparing to bring more students back to the classroom. The children are so happy to be back and it s wonderful to see all of the mitigation strategies that they have in place here the signs on the floor, the hand sanitizer stations, the partitions around the desks in the classroom, Salmon said.The school s principal, Brandon Pinkney, said it is the result of lots of work behind the scenes. This is amazing. I m just very elated to have
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John SextonPosted at 9:00 pm on February 23, 2021
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Yesterday the LA County school district reached a deal with non-teachers paving the way for a return to schools for at least some workers:
A union representing non-teachers at Los Angeles Unified including custodians, food service workers, truck drivers and other essential workers has reached agreement with the district in preparation for the eventual reopening of schools for in-person instruction, the union announced Monday.
In a statement released Monday morning, Service Employees International Union Local 99 said the agreement with LAUSD will allow for the reopening of some school-based services that were shut down on Dec. 10, 2020, when LAUSD imposed a safer-at-home order in response to a winter surge in COVID 19 cases.
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Last week, the California Teachers Association (CTA) launched a tone-deaf advertising blitz defending its position on school re-openings. The cable package, which according to reports cost CTA more than $93,000 of dues money, features a 30-second ad reminding the public that COVID-19 is still real and very, very scary.
The commercial went over about as well as you would expect. Falling back on CTA’s favorite lie, “We want to re-open too,” the video tells the story about how we all want the same thing it’s just impossible to have.
It’s not impossible because the governor isn’t allowing them to re-open he’s finally saying they should.