Milwaukee school board approves plan to reopen schools
Milwaukee Public School Board unanimously approved a plan to begin the phased reopening of schools at their board meeting last Tuesday. The plan allows for 300 special needs students and their teachers to voluntarily return to in-person instruction on February 8. Further, it sets tentative return dates in mid-April for roughly 4,300 teachers and 75,000 students.
Under the proposal, 23,000 Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade students will return on April 12, 32,000 3rd through 8th graders on April 19, and finally 19,000 high school students will return on April 26. A similar tiered reopening schedule was utilized in Chicago and other districts to divide educators and attempt to stifle opposition. In Chicago, Pre-Kindergarten and Special Education teachers were ordered back into the classroom on January 4th while the rest of the district is remote.
How many doses of the COVID vaccine has Wisconsin received?
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services updates its statewide vaccine data dashboard weekly on Tuesdays. As of Jan. 26, 803,150 doses have been ordered into the State of Wisconsin.
State government directly ordered 641,150 of those doses, private pharmacies ordering another 57,000 to be administered at skilled nursing facilities (i.e. nursing homes) and another 105,000 to be administered at assisted living facilities.
However, the state has been allocated 846,300 doses by the federal government, a difference of 43,150 between allocation and actually ordered doses as of Tuesday.
The reason for that difference, according to state health leaders, is that Wisconsin doesnât want to order more doses than its vaccinators, which are slowly coming online, can actually use.
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Wisconsin expands Medicaid coverage of residential substance use disorder
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has announced that the state is expanding Medicaid coverage of residential substance use disorder treatment for members, effective on February 1, 2021.
According to a press release, the treatment offered uses a âwhole patientâ approach that is clinically effective, reduces overdoses and deaths, and helps people sustain recovery. Health care providers will determine whether their patients require this level of care using criteria from the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
In the statement Wisconsin Medicaid Director Jim Jones said, âAddiction doesnât just affect the individual, it affects their families, loved ones, and communities. The services offered under this benefit are critical to providing the most appropriate level of care for many of those dealing with severe and long-term addictions.