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School Board approves health and safety measures for 2021-2022

Here are a couple of updates from Crookston Public Schools: Mask Mandate in Schools: As you no doubt have heard, the mask mandate in Minnesota has just been dropped for the general public. The mask mandate however, has not been dropped for schools. Minnesota Schools are requiring masks through the end of this school year while in school buildings or on school transportation.  Graduation: We are very happy to announce that this year's graduation will be a normal graduation with the exception that masks will be required. There will not be any capacity restrictions and social distancing will no...

Future of old bus garage discussed Crookston Times     Crookston School District is working toward bid opening for the sale of the old bus garage downtown plus they’ve solicited bids for demolition of a dilapidated portion of the property, Superintendent Jeremy Olson told the School Board at this week’s special meeting. Olson said he received a “very ballpark estimate” for the demo work and after not being comfortable with the numbers said he’s in discussions with a Polk County representative for additional criteria.     Olson asked the board for a timeline to determine when b...

Crookston School District Superintendent Jeremy Olson Greetings from Crookston Public Schools! We are in what I believe is the last stage of this virus’s effect on schools. Maybe I am being overly optimistic, however, my thought process for the next school year is one in which we see a normal school year as a majority of our population becomes vaccinated over the coming months. Here are a couple of things that you should know as we move forward: Current COVID Situation: In a month’s time, we have only had two instances of an individual with a  positive COVID case being present in our sch...

Superintendent Olson: Wrapping up 2020, preparing for 2021 Submitted by Jeremy Olson Crookston Times     Happy Holidays from Crookston Public Schools! Here are a couple of updates as we wrap up 2020 and prepare for 2021.     ACT data was just released that shows that Crookston High School students composite scores increased by 2 points. The average composite ACT score improved to 20.8 for 2020. Congratulations to our students for increasing this composite ACT score!     Reminder to Parents and Students that in person instruction will begin on January 4th for the elementary with the h...