New variants and delayed vaccinations roll COVID school costs into next fall Eva Ferguson Hand sanitizers are provided for students and teachers in a classroom in Henry Wise Wood High School on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, prior to the school reopening. As the federal government rolls out the second phase of its $2-billion Safe Return to Class Fund, Calgary school boards can expect looming costs to keep rising amid new variants and no plans to vaccinate younger students with the general population. With the second semester of the academic year starting this week, the Calgary Board of Education will get phase two of a federal grant totalling $45.7 million, an increase of $1.2 million from the original $44.5 million announced last fall.
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After just one week of in-person learning since winter break, COVID-19 cases are already rising rapidly in Calgary schools, with public high schools shuttering classes until next week and some junior high grades moving online until the end of the month.
Schools with the Calgary Board of Education are reporting at least 66 new cases of COVID-19 for the month of January so far, forcing up to 2,400 students and 200 staff into quarantine.
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