0:51 Chief Strategy Officer Sarah Trimble-Oliver said for blended learning to happen, COVID-19 cases need to be within a certain range. Credit Cincinnati Public Schools (screenshot from Dec. 16, 2020 meeting) "Forty cases per 100,000 is the range we would need to be below," Trimble-Oliver said. Trimble-Oliver says Cincinnati is currently dealing with 70 cases per 100,000 people. The city's positivity rate is at 10.8%. The Board of Education will start reviewing COVID-19 data Jan. 2. On Jan. 16, if cases remain below that threshold, Pre-K and specialized classrooms can return Feb. 1. Credit Cincinnati Public Schools (screenshot from Dec. 16, 2020 meeting) A slide shown during Wednesday's meeting says that blended learning offers both academic and COVID safety risk. Meanwhile, distance learning offers high academic risk, but low COVID risk.