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By Erin Cox
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Feb 25, 2021
Almost one year after state leaders announced school closures due to COVID-19, students in the Knox County Public Schools and Whitley County School District will soon return to the classroom.
Knox County Public Schools Superintendent Kelly Sprinkles provided the Board of Education an update on the district s Learning@School and Learning@Home instructional methods during the board s Monday meeting. Our plan has been to get students back in five days a week and I feel that we can safely do that, Sprinkles said.
The transition will take effect on March 8 and is contingent upon schools meeting Centers for Disease Control guidelines, guidance released by the Kentucky Department of Education, and executive orders in place by the governor, a press release from the school system said. Students that are currently in A and B hybrid groups attending two days a week will attend five days a week. Preschool students will attend four days a week, with their o
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If you haven’t given the subject much though, then you might want to start doing so.
Starting Wednesday, the school district will be conducting a survey for one week in order to get input on this question?
Then the school district calendar committee will meet and discuss the results, and hopefully present the board with a recommendation or recommendations at its monthly meeting in March, Director of Pupil Personnel Patrick Bowlin told the board during its monthly meeting Monday.
“There will be a link on our website (https://www.whitley.k12.ky.us/). We will also send it out by e-mail to our staff. Whenever we get those survey results back, we will share that with the calendar committee, and get some options to present to the board as far as calendars for next year,” Bowlin said.