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A 75% capacity hybrid model, in which students are divided among four cohorts with three in person at a time, will be implemented at Staples starting March 1. Under this model, hybrid learners will attend school in-person three days a week with Wednesdays remaining as remote days. Westport’s elementary and middle schools began transitioning to full in-person learning on Jan. 28. All hybrid students at the middle schools attend school four days a week, with a remote half day on Wednesdays. Distance learning remains an option at both the elementary and middle school level. “Balancing our public health responsibility with the needs that our students have,” Superintendent Thomas Scarice said in a Board of Education meeting on Jan. 19, “I think the benefits of a full on-site in-person schooling is so important […] that it is a time to move in that direction.” ....
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With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across the world, Connecticut and Westport continue to level with the fallout from it. However, there is more bad news on the horizon. This includes the steadily increasing case numbers in Westport from in the last two weeks. The case rate per 100,000 in Westport was near 21.6. Now, as of Jan. 14, it has exploded upwards to 27.2 per 100,000 and the case numbers in Fairfield County are nearly double that, up from 43.8 per 100,000 to 50 per 100,000. Outside of that, on a more local level, Superintendent of Schools Thomas Scarice announced in an email on Jan. 13 that there were 10 new cases within the district, five of them coming from Staples, but no school closures coming as a result as of yet. He also reminded families that any student awaiting a COVID-19 test result should not come to school. ....