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A total of 11 schools in the Livingstone Range School Division (LRSD) have had at least one confirmed COVID-19 case in the first four months of the school year, according to a mid-year report the local school division released last week.
From Sept. 1 to Jan. 31, the school division has had 24 confirmed cases in its schools. A total of 459 students and 63 staff have been affected by confirmed cases and quarantined as directed.
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The LRSD notes that some students and staff were affected by more than one case, so some students and staff were counted more than once.
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The names of trustee candidates may be on the same ballot as their municipal counterparts in the next election.
Livingstone Range School Division will ask towns and municipal districts to consider that change for the October election.
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“I think that this would be beneficial to raise the profile of the school board election,” trustee Brad Toone said.
Toone made the proposal at the school board’s Jan. 19 meeting at the G.R. Davis Administration Building in Fort Macleod.
Associate superintendent of business services Jeff Perry is Livingstone Range School Division’s returning officer.
Nikki Lytwyn, executive assistant to the superintendent, was appointed substitute returning officer, a new requirement in Alberta’s Election Act.
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“She works along me with in preparation for the elections anyways so it makes sense to have her as the substitute returning officer,” Perry said.
Trustees made the appointments Dec. 15 during their virtual meeting.
The school board had to make the appointments at their last meeting in December, since nominations can begin in January.