Page 26 - Simon Sanchez News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The Guam Department of Education continues to move forward with plans to make portable internet devices available to students and the deadline for internet providers to submit their bids is Feb. 22, according to education Superintendent Jon Fernandez. The public schools have as much as $8 million in federal pandemic funding, from the governor’s office, to lease portable “MiFi” devices through next school year to provide home internet access. The schools also have been distributing laptops to students who want them and recently opened the first eight community learning centers to provide...

The Guam Department of Education has finished tracking down hundreds of “missing” public school students after pandemic restrictions were eased and DOE was able to conduct home visits for the first time, according to education Superintendent Jon Fernandez. In October, two months after the school year started, DOE reported that as many as 1,750 students still were “missing” — not enrolled in either of the distance learning options and unable to be contacted using the information on file. The public schools started the school year using only online or hard-copy distance learning becau...

Students at John F. Kennedy High school will receive free tuberculosis skin tests, COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, and immunization updates.

Staff Reports The Guam Department of Education confirmed on Monday that one GDOE employee at Capt. H.B. Price Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Joint Information Center. The Guam DOE is working closely with the Department of Public Health and Social Services to conduct contact tracing. Any close contact of the confirmed case will be notified directly, and areas of the offices where the employee works will be cleaned and disinfected as needed.

The average residential power bill will go up by about $21 a month, starting this month. The Public Utilities commission voted to increase the fuel surcharge known as the LEAC by about 11% effective F