Posted3/4/2021 5:20 AM
Full-day in-class instruction is being considered as an added option for students at Libertyville and Vernon Hills high schools.
A final determination is pending, but an informal consensus of the Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 school board supports allowing more time in class for those who want it.
A parent survey due by Sunday will give the board a sense of how many students want the full-day, in-person route. The school board will review the results and are expected to vote Monday whether to add a full-day, in-person option and, if approved, when that would start.
Superintendent Prentiss Lea recommended April 5 as the earliest the shift should occur, to provide a weeklong buffer after the end of spring break.
Updated 1/13/2021 4:28 PM
Returning to classrooms for many students at Libertyville and Vernon Hills high schools will include a weekly, on-site COVID-19 test.
Teachers, too, are part of the voluntary program officials in Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 have been working furiously to ready for hybrid learning, which begins Tuesday.
Teachers who returned to school buildings this week were given tests in a practice run to spot issues and fine-tune procedures. We re as ready as we ve ever been or ever will be for students to come back, Superintendent Prentiss Lea told parents Tuesday during a nearly two-hour informational webinar.
The school board in late November unanimously voted to return to in-person learning. On Jan. 4, a contract with Passport Health to provide Abbott s BinaxNOW tests and testing services at both high schools was approved.
Updated 1/13/2021 5:53 AM
Some suburban school districts went back to in-person learning after the winter break, and more will be doing so in the coming weeks, some with added tools such as COVID-19 testing for staffs.
Students in Palatine Township Elementary District 15 and Oak Grove Elementary District 68 were back last week after a pause for all-virtual learning between Thanksgiving and winter break. Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 restarted with a hybrid learning model Monday.
Barrington Area Unit District 220, whose students had all-virtual learning this school year with the exception of a few days in late October, will implement hybrid learning starting Jan. 19. Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 will do the same.