Students' Return to Classroom Pushed Back to Feb. 1 if Metrics Are Met
Students’ Return to Classroom Pushed Back to Feb. 1 if Metrics Are Met The earliest Montgomery County Public School students will return to the classroom is Feb. 1 and that only will occur if the county’s COVID-19 positivity rate is 5% or below and there are fewer than 15 new cases for every 100,000 residents, the Board of Education unanimously agreed Dec. 15. Tuesday, the positivity rate was 6.1% and the average number of cases during the past seven days was 43.7 per 100,00 residents. The board also unanimously agreed that when those health metrics are met, students would return to the c...