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InMaricopa Santa Cruz Elementary School. Photo by Raquel Hendrickson All students at Santa Cruz Elementary School are learning from home until Monday due to positive COVID-19 tests and quarantines among faculty and staff. The move to distance learning began today, according to the Maricopa Unified School District. “We have been closely monitoring the five recently reported COVID cases at Santa Cruz and the impact the associated quarantines have on the campus,” Mishell Terry, the district’s coordinator of communications and social media, said in an e-mail. “Due to the current number of quarantined staff as well as additional absences due to staff illness, we are unable to provide adequate adult supervision to support in-person learning.” ....
InMaricopa Five are undeveloped. In December, MUSD received $3.54 million from Arizona’s School Facilities Board to buy the Cortona property at the southwest corner of Murphy and Farrell roads near the far east edge of the district. The SFB is also supplying more than $22 million approved by the state Legislature to help build the school. MUSD closed escrow on the property Dec. 1, and hydrant flow tests began days later to determine design flow and pressure on the site. Cortona is the latest in a series of land purchases and donations still in district possession that date back to the 1950s. ....